Browsing Other - PRISM: Polymer, Recycling, Industrial, Sustainability and Manufacturing Institute by Subject "Materials Research Institute"

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    • 3D printed end of arm tooling (EOAT) of a robotic arm 

      Ong U Jing, Daniel; Lyons, Sean; Devine, Declan (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2018-04-24)
      This research furthers the practice of designing and manufacturing an EOAT for low weight applications by utilising additive manufacturing (“3D Printing”) techniques to decrease energy consumption via tool weight savings ...

    • Degradable polymer nanocomposites for fused filament fabrication applications 

      Healy, Andrew V.; Geever, Luke M.; Devine, Declan M.; Lyons, John G. (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2018-04-24)
      The use of plastics in everyday life has increased dramatically during the course of the 20th and 21st century which is primarily due to the characteristics plastics offer in the development of new products to meet the ...

    • Development of electrospun PVA nanofibers via freeze-thawing method 

      Chee, Bor Shin; Wu, Husheng; Zhu, Wenquan; Masood, Unsa; Sampaio, Viviane Seba; Pereira, Bruno Leandro; Nugent, Michael J.D. (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2019)
      The polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogels are proven to have the benefits of improving water retention ability, cell attachment and controlled drug release in medical device materials for pharmaceutical applications. Due to ...

    • Development of high strength nanocomposite for biodegradable stents 

      Venkatesh, Chaitra; Chen, Yuanyuan; Cao, Zhi; Brennan, Shane; Major, Ian; Lyons, John G.; Devine, Declan M. (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2018-04-24)
      The use of biodegradable polymer materials are considered to be good alternatives in urology (Donohue et. al. 2018), cardiovascular (Brie et. al. 2016) and tracheal airway stenosis which provide support before it is absorbed ...

    • Electrospinning of hydrogels for biomedical applications 

      de Lima, Gabriel Goetten; Lyons, Sean; Devine, Declan M.; Nugent, Michael J.D. (Springer Nature, 2018)
      The field of biomedical applications for hydrogels requires the development of nanostructures with specific controlled diameter and mechanical properties. Nanofibers are ideally candidates for these advanced requirements, ...

    • Electrospun natural polysaccharide for biomedical applications. 

      Chee, Bor Shin; Nugent, Michael (Elsevier, 2019-07-27)
      Electrospinning is a simple and versatile technique in nanotechnology for fabricating nanofibers scaffolds for tissue regenerations, drug delivery systems, wound healing, and cancer therapy. This chapter provides a synopsis ...

    • Enhancing the bioavailability of hydrophobic drugs using hot melt extrusion 

      Devine, Declan M.; Higginbotham, Clement; Geever, Luke M.; Coffey, Conor (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2018-04-24)
      Many existing drugs (as well as new revelations) in the pharmaceutical industry bear a distinct disadvantage in the sense that they are not water soluble, displaying low bioavailability values and consequently a reduced ...

    • The influence of mechanical stretching and freeze-thaw processing on the properties of polyvinyl alcohol hydrogels for drug delivery applications 

      Chee, Bor Shin; De Lima, Gabriel G.; Devine, Declan M.; Nugent, Michael J.D. (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2018-04-24)
      The study describes the development of physically cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogels using uniaxial orientation via freeze-thawing (F/T). Although cryogels have shown significant improvements in long-term ...

    • Orthopaedic 3D printing in orthopaedic medicine. 

      Brennan Fournet, Margaret; Azman, Farah Alwani Binti; Günbay, Suzan; Chen, Yuanyuan; Devine, Declan M. (Springer, 2019-09-17)
      Orthopaedic surgeries are commonly extremely challenging, and innovations are required to overcome a series of recognised difficulties and improve patient outcomes. Complications, in particular, the high occurrence of ...

    • Structure response for cellulose-based hydrogels via characterization techniques. 

      de Sá, Marcelo Jorge Cavalcanti; de Lima, Gabriel Goetten; Segundo, Francisco Alipio de Sousa; Nugent, Michael J.D. (Springer, 2019)
      Hydrogels are three-dimensional crosslinked polymeric networks capable of imbibing substantial amounts of water or biological fluids and are widely used in biomedical applications, especially in pharmaceutical industry as ...

    • Tailoring surface properties from nanotubes and anodic layers of titanium for biomedical applications. 

      de Lima, G.G.; da Luz, Aline Rossetto; Pereira, Bruno Leandro; Szez, Eduardo Mioduski; de Souza, Gelson Biscaia; Lepienski, Carlos Mauricio; Kuromoto, Neide Kazue; Nugent, Michael J.D. (Woodhead Publishing, 2019)
      The following chapter gives an overview of the anodic layers and nanotubes produced with plasma electrolytic oxidation. An introduction into the mechanisms involved in producing these nanofilms, such as the required ...