Additive Manufacturing of Nitinol for Smart Personalized Medical Devices: Current Capabilities and Challenges

Andrés Díaz Lantada, Carlos Vega, Rodrigo Zapata Martínez, Mónica Rendón, Muzi Li, Óscar Contreras-Almengor, Jesús Ordoño, William Solórzano-Requejo, Miroslav Vasic, Juan Manuel Munoz-Guijosa, Jon Molina-Aldareguia, Jon Molina-Aldareguia

2024

Abstract

Shape-morphing smart medical devices constitute a current research trend and are bound to transform healthcare thanks to the improved interactions with the human body they enable. 4D printing technologies facilitate the development of such devices and start to provide innovative solutions like minimally invasive surgical tools and devices, ergonomic appliances and orthoses, evolutive implants and active in vitro biodevices, among others. Most studies so far, dealing with 4D printed biodevices, have been focused on smart polymeric materials and structures, whose biomechanical, biochemical and biological properties cannot always match those from shape-morphing and shape-memory alloys (SMAs). Considering several recent synergic breakthroughs in the additive manufacturing of smart alloys, this study presents 4D printing with SMAs for a new generation of medical devices, illustrated through case studies by our team. The more relevant strategies under research for enhancing the performance of 4D printed NiTi are illustrated and varied foreseen directions for achieving a sustainable and equitable impact in healthcare are discussed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Díaz Lantada A., Vega C., Zapata Martínez R., Rendón M., Li M., Contreras-Almengor Ó., Ordoño J., Solórzano-Requejo W., Vasic M., Manuel Munoz-Guijosa J. and Molina-Aldareguia J. (2024). Additive Manufacturing of Nitinol for Smart Personalized Medical Devices: Current Capabilities and Challenges. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: BIODEVICES; ISBN 978-989-758-688-0, SciTePress, pages 123-134. DOI: 10.5220/0012363900003657

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices24,
author={Andrés Díaz Lantada and Carlos Vega and Rodrigo Zapata Martínez and Mónica Rendón and Muzi Li and Óscar Contreras-Almengor and Jesús Ordoño and William Solórzano-Requejo and Miroslav Vasic and Juan Manuel Munoz-Guijosa and Jon Molina-Aldareguia},
title={Additive Manufacturing of Nitinol for Smart Personalized Medical Devices: Current Capabilities and Challenges},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: BIODEVICES},
year={2024},
pages={123-134},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012363900003657},
isbn={978-989-758-688-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: BIODEVICES
TI - Additive Manufacturing of Nitinol for Smart Personalized Medical Devices: Current Capabilities and Challenges
SN - 978-989-758-688-0
AU - Díaz Lantada A.
AU - Vega C.
AU - Zapata Martínez R.
AU - Rendón M.
AU - Li M.
AU - Contreras-Almengor Ó.
AU - Ordoño J.
AU - Solórzano-Requejo W.
AU - Vasic M.
AU - Manuel Munoz-Guijosa J.
AU - Molina-Aldareguia J.
PY - 2024
SP - 123
EP - 134
DO - 10.5220/0012363900003657
PB - SciTePress