Titanium coated with functionalized carbon nanotubes — A promising novel material for biomedical application as an implantable orthopaedic electronic device

Titanium Surface Modification with Carbon Nanotubes. Towards Improved Biocompatibility

“…To find some of the distinguishable components (such as the D2 band, which is typical of defective graphite like materials), curve fitting procedure, using Gaussian/Lorentzian shape line was performed. High intensity of the D1 band, together with a presence of a distinguishable D2 band indicate high amount of defects, attributed mostly to the presence of heteroatoms within the functional groups, such as hydroxyl, carboxyl, carbonyl or C-O [7,9,10]. Meanwhile, an upshift of the G band from the values found in the literature can be connected to the intercalation of the tubes with the acceptor dopant [11].…”

“…Vendordefined characteristics of the material can be found at the producer's site. The CNTs were oxidized in the mixture of concentrated acids, yielding tubes that are highly functionalized with polar groups, as described in our previous study [7]. Thus, easily dispersible CNTs with electrical charge were obtained.…”

“…Titanium plate was cut into 10 × 10 mm 2 squares and used as a positive electrode in the EPD method. The deposition was carried out for 30 s, with applied voltage of 30 V, using a previously described setup [7]. Accordingly, Ti_CNTs_ea samples were fabricated.…”

Extended Open Partial Laryngectomy with Titanium-Based Laryngeal Framework Reconstruction: Surgical Technique and Treatment Outcomes

“…Apart from the ENT surgery, they are well known in general surgery, orthopaedics or maxillofacial surgery [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. Such widespread use of titanium can be attributed to its favorable mechanical properties, corrosive resistance, biocompatibility and biotolerance [7,28]. Titanium laryngeal framework prostheses can be a valuable alternative in patients undergoing extended open partial laryngectomies for intermediate-stage laryngeal cancers with suspected thyroid cartilage infiltration [7].…”

Use of anodized titanium alloy as drug carrier: Ibuprofen as model of drug releasing

“…The potential use of different biomaterials as drug carriers, aimed to the local treatment of many conditions, has been analysed in many reports, aiming to obtain the ideal "intelligent material" (Brohede et al, 2009;Johnson and Garcia, 2014;Park et al, 2014;Przekora et al, 2014;Vallet-Regi et al, 2007;Vallet-Regi and Ruiz-Hernandez, 2011).…”