EMERGING BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF SMART MATERIAL
Journal Title: World Journal of Advance Healthcare Research - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 6
Abstract
The Six-Million-Dollar Man, a popular series of television motion pictures in which the major character Lee Majors as test pilot whose airplane crashed, resulting in the loss of both legs, an arm and an eye. Major’s character was rebuilt by skilled physician using advanced biomedical body part made up of smart materials at a cost of six million dollar as bionic man (hence the name). This science friction stories give a view sight to make and design synthetic biological materials and body parts which can response the stimulus. Smart materials can respond to external stimuli by making some sense either in their physical, chemical, electrical, magnetical and optical properties. This extraordinary ability of structures or structural components of materials perform design function. There are multitude of examples of smart materials that are used in and around us. However biomedical applications seem to be very promising to design point of care (POC) device to screen the large population against many non- communicable or communicable diseases. Other applications of smart materials are also discussed in the review.
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Dr. Rupak Kumar
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