Objective
Each year about 430.000 patients in the European Union have a total hip or knee joint replacement to provide relief from crippling joint diseases such as arthritis. The survival time of current hip and knee implants rarely exceeds fifteen years due to the generation of tremendous numbers of predominately sub-micron-sized polyethylene wear particles, eventually leading to implant loosening. The project aims to provide more durable implant joints with substantially longer lifetimes and to reduce the need for subsequent surgery. Two areas of advanced surface technology, sol-gel and High Velocity Oxy Fuel thermak spaying, will be developed to ammow the deposition of novel hybrid coatings of ceramic-polymer composite. Such coating will be used to eliminate or reduce debris generation from UHMWPE in the hip joint, and to provide a coated metal alternative to UHMWPE for knee, hip and other orthopedic wear couples.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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.
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.
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine rheumatology
- engineering and technology materials engineering composites
- engineering and technology materials engineering coating and films
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels
- medical and health sciences medical biotechnology implants
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Coordinator
TS17 9LZ Thornaby-on-Tees, Cleveland
United Kingdom
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