OU - BME 3233 Biomaterials Reviews

 

This collection of review papers is an ongoing product by students of the BME 3233 Biomaterials class. Every semester, students choose a topic on Biomaterials and collect literature related to state-of-the-art technologies, analyze it, and create reports targeted to the general public. These reviews are supervised by Dr. Handan Acar, instructor of the class, and are curated and prepared for public release by Seren Hamsici (TA, Fall 2020).

Please contact Dr. Handan Acar (hacar@ou.edu) for any question/ comment about the articles.

Recent Submissions

  • Soft Robotics in Medicine  Undergraduate

    Donaldson, Anthony (2021-05-04)
    Robots are seeing increasing integration into the medical field, but they are often limited by their size, lack of flexibility, and other intrinsic impediments. However, an area of recent interest, soft robotics, has the ...

  • Mechanical Properties of Biomaterials Used in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty  Undergraduate

    Kenney, Sarah; Garner, Christian (2021-05-04)
    Total hip and knee arthroplasty (THA and TKA) represent two of the most successful operations in orthopedics. For a total hip or knee prosthesis to function successfully, it must transfer mechanical loads up to seven times ...

  • Nano-Polymeric Biomaterials Used in Cancer Drug Delivery  Undergraduate

    Knox, Meagan L.; Schuppel, Matthew W. (2021-05-04)
    Cancer drug delivery therapy has become an increasingly researched field. Between the understanding of how nanomedicine can be used in cancer therapies, and the needs of a polymer to deliver drugs to targeted organs and ...

  • Moving Towards Functional Renal Bioprinting  Undergraduate

    Thomas, Emily; Mettenbrink, Evan (2021-05-04)
    3D bioprinting technologies are rapidly developing and provide a platform for manufacturing structures that mimic the in vivo environment. Recent research aims to produce 3D bioprinted structures that recapitulate both in ...