Liquid Metal Biomaterials

✍ Scribed by Jing Liu, Liting Yi

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 438
• Series: Springer Series in Biomaterials Science and Engineering 10
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the first-ever book to illustrate the principles and applications of liquid metal biomaterials. Room-temperature liquid metal materials are rapidly emerging as next-generation functional materials that display many unconventional properties superior to those of conventional biomaterials. Their outstanding, unique versatility (“one material, diverse capabilities”) opens many exciting opportunities for the medical sciences. The book reviews representative applications of liquid metal biomaterials from both therapeutic and diagnostic aspects. It also discusses related efforts to employ liquid metals to overcome today’s biomedical challenges. It will provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the technical advances and fundamental discoveries on the frontier, and thus equip them to investigate and utilize liquid metal biomaterials to tackle various critical problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Introduction (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 1-18
Unconventional Fluidic Properties of Liquid Metal (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 19-51
Electrical Properties of Liquid Metal in Making Biomedical Soft Electronics (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 53-82
Mechanical Properties of Liquid Metal After Solidified (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 83-93
Preparations and Characterizations of Functional Liquid Metal Materials (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 95-115
Liquid Metal Image Contrast Agent in Angiography (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 117-129
Liquid Metal as Vascular Embolic Agent in Tumor Therapy (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 131-148
Liquid Metal Enabled Injectable Biomedical Electronics (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 149-186
Liquid Metal as Electronic Medium to Recover Damaged Nerves’ Function (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 187-214
Phase Changeable Liquid Metal as Injectable and Reversible Bone Cement (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 215-236
Liquid Metal Enabled Flexible Exoskeleton or Artificial Muscle (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 237-253
Liquid Metal Enabled Skin Electronics (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 255-323
Liquid Metal Printed Biosensor (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 325-367
Liquid Metal Enabled Wearable Electronics (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 369-416
Liquid Alkali Alloy for Chemothermal Therapy of Tumor (Jing Liu, Liting Yi)....Pages 417-428

✦ Subjects

Materials Science; Biomaterials; Biomedical Engineering; Metallic Materials