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Chapter 5 Plasma Modified Textiles for Biomedical Applications

Author
Morent, Rino
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[Place of publication not identified] : InTechOpen, 2015.
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Cools, Pieter, De Geyter, Nathalie, and Morent, Rino
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English
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Summary
In the textile market industry, technical textiles are one of the fastest growing businesses. Part of that industry consists of textiles for medical and healthcare applications and are responsible for a continuous increase in its market potential [1]. Next to their need in hospital environments, there is a growing demand in other sectors such as the food and hotel industry, due to stricter hygiene regulations. In most cases biomedical textile meets a well-defined set of requirements such as minimizing non-specific protein adsorption, drug delivery coatings or the presence of active functional coatings and most importantly excellent biocompatibility (blood-, tissue-or cyto-compatibility) [2]. In general there are very few materials meeting all these characteristics, while at the same time offering the needed structural and mechanical properties. Furthermore, depending on the application, the production process has to be cost-effective and approved by local legislation.
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ISBN
59770
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OAPEN Library.
Funding Information
FP7 Ideas: European Research Council
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Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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