Objective
Continuing advances in the areas of clinical science involving the use of implants inside the human body have created demand for materials that need to satisfy the twin needs of bio-compatibility and special material properties such as the shape memory effect and superplasticity. Titanium-Nickel based alloys possess the aforementioned properties and their use is rapidly gaining acceptance. Nickel however, is well known to cause adverse effects to the body by a process of nickel migrating into the blood stream Although bio-compatibility tests have not detected any adverse effects by completely removing nickel from shape memory alloys would eliminate the chance of any toxic effect. This development would produce an alloy which is more attractive to the medical profession and increase the use of titanium-based memory alloys in new applications such as implanted drug delivery systems, endoscopy, laproscopy etc. It is proposed that the elements unlike nickel, such as; zirconium, niobium, tantalum and platinum which are essentially bio-compatible, will be alloyed with titanium individually or in combination can also exhibit the shape memory effect. The research is required to identify suitable alloys from this group which would have all the beneficial shape memory effects of the titanium-nickel based alloys and also reduce adverse biological responses. At present 2 SME' have agreed to co-operate in this research programme, on from the Netherlands and one in the UK. Further European partners will be sort during the exploratory phase of this programme. The SME's lack the research facilities and skills necessary to carry out the materials research aspects of the programme and this component of the work will be carried out by the Defence Research Agency base in the UK and the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA).
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry transition metals
- medical and health sciences medical biotechnology implants
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