Browsing Mechanical, Manufacturing & Biomedical Eng by Subject "Repair"

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    • Biomechanics of Repair in Invertebrates 

      O'NEILL, MAEVE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2019)
      Repair is a ubiquitous process in nature, and it is one of the many features of biological materials that humans are constantly attempting to recreate. Though the process of repair has been studied in mammals, very little ...

    • Injectable Disc-Derived ECM Hydrogel Functionalised with Chondroitin Sulfate for Intervertebral Disc Regeneration 

      Borrelli, Chiara; Buckley, Conor (2020)
      Low back pain resulting from intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is a significant socioeconomic burden. The main effect of the degeneration process involves the alteration of the nucleus pulposus (NP) via cell-mediated ...

    • Self-healing materials: What can nature teach us? 

      Dooley, Clodagh; Taylor, David (2017)
      Natural materials such as bone and insect cuticle are capable of self-repair, a facility that greatly increases their durability and safe working stress. Some engineering materials have also been designed to be self-healing, ...