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Biomaterials and Biofabrication Push Medical Implants Toward Multifunctional Devices

Medical implants are no longer passive pieces of hardware. A titanium screw or an artificial hip must do far more than provide mechanical support or stand in for damaged tissue: it...

DiFusion to Define Therapeutic Biomaterials Category at NASS 2026

Red Theater presentation will distinguish conventional biotolerable implants from materials deliberately engineered to influence the host response and participate in healing

Biocomposites to host industry symposium and present new STIMULAN® data at EBJIS-MSIS 2026

KEELE, United Kingdom, Sept. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Biocomposites, an international medical devices company that engineers, manufactures…

Biomaterials Break Physical Barriers to Boost Drug Delivery in Tumors

For decades, the story of cancer drug delivery has been dominated by chemistry: better ligands, smarter polymers, more potent payloads. Yet a growing body of evidence suggests that...

Graphene oxide could help dental implant coatings fuse better with bone

Researchers at King Khalid University, Warsaw University of Technology and Saveetha University have used molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, and computational toxici...

Carbon Fibers and Graphite Particles Supercharge Dissolving Magnesium Composites

Soluble magnesium composites are emerging as one of the most intriguing materials of the decade, promising tools that dissolve on command downhole in oil and gas wells, and implant...

Mildly Alkaline Implant Surfaces Enlist Neutrophils to Fight Infection and Rebuild Bone

Orthopedic implants have transformed the treatment of fractures and bone defects, yet implant-associated infection remains one of the most stubborn obstacles to long-term clinical...

Self-Healing, Recyclable Carbon Fiber Composites Push Aerospace Materials Toward Circularity

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science have created a self-healing, fully recyclable carbon fiber composite whose dual-dynamic vitrimer matrix boosts strength by up to 53 p...

Self-Healing Epoxy Composites Get a Titanium Dioxide Boost Against Wear and Corrosion

Researchers in India have developed self-healing epoxy composites reinforced with graphene oxide and carbon nanotube microcapsules, showing that a titanium dioxide sol–gel coating...

Bioretec receives FDA 510(k) clearance for its ActivaScrewâ„¢ Cannulated COM bioabsorbable compression screw

“DURABIO”, a bio-engineering plastic partly made from plant-derived isosorbide, is adopted for ALBION's cosmetic contain...

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Manabu Chikumoto) is pleased to announce that the plant-derived bio-engineering plastic DURABIOв...

Glowing Bone Mineral Nanofibers Could Carry Drugs and Light Up Cells at Once

Researchers synthesized europium-doped hydroxyapatite nanofibers via a microwave-assisted hydrothermal method, showing tunable structure, red photoluminescence, and preliminary que...

New Open-Access Journal Puts Sustainable Polymers at the Center of Materials Science

Polymers are quietly the most successful materials story of the modern era, and the scientific community is now giving them a dedicated stage. Springer Nature has launched the Jour...

New polymer glows fluorescent under mechanical stress

Materials that glow under stress have long been a dream for engineers who worry about the silent failure of plastics, rubbers, and composites. Now, researchers at Institute of Scie...

Empty Voids, Full Potential: Free-Volume Engineering Unlocks Recyclable Bio-Based Epoxy That Rivals Petroleum Plastics

Epoxy resins are the quiet workhorses of modern industry. The carbon fiber panels in aircraft wings, the blades of wind turbines, and countless high-performance structural componen...

Titanium-polymer metamaterial floats in water

Hybrid open-cell material shows promise for marine infrastructure The post Titanium-polymer metamaterial floats in water appeared first on Physics World.

Innovasis Receives FDA Clearance for Nano-Scale Surface Designation on AxTiHA, TxTiHA, and HAtetracell-C Implants

Engineered 20-nanometer surface architecture on Innovasis' HA-coated titanium implants was reviewed and cleared under the FDA's Nanotechnology Guidance, confirming nanoscale surfac...

Antimicrobial PVA silver nanoparticle zeolite nanofibers developed for wound dressings

Researchers in Turkey have engineered an electrospun nanofiber wound dressing that closes nearly all of a full-thickness wound within two weeks, and their results suggest the mater...

Bioretec receives FDA 510(k) clearance for its ActivaScrewâ„¢ Cannulated COM bioabsorbable compression screw

September 8, 2026 – Bioretec Ltd (“Bioretec” or the “Company”), a pioneer in bioabsorbable orthopedic implants, has received…

Molecular stacking under nanoconfinement creates flexible honeycomb topological structures

In a development that could reshape how clinicians manage one of the most stubborn problems in wound care, a team of researchers in China has engineered a “smart” wound dressing mo...

Beyond “Plastic is Plastic”: What Orthodontists Should Know About Modern Clear Appliance Materials 

As in-office aligner production grows, material selection becomes a vital clinical decision. In this white paper, learn to separate marketing noise from biomechanical reality for p...

Blow-Spun PVDF Nanofiber Mats Get Strength Boost From Clay Up to a Critical Limit

Researchers in Brazil have shown that a fast, low-cost fiber fabrication technique can turn a common fluoropolymer into tough, water-repellent nanocomposite mats—but only up to a s...

Glass Meets Plastic: Hybrid Fibres Crack the Code for Low-Carbon Bendable Concrete

Concrete is famously strong in compression and famously terrible in tension. For decades, engineers have compensated by drowning brittle cement matrices in steel reinforcement, but...

Spine Implants: When Invisible Hardware Becomes the Point

Is carbon fiber the future of spinal tumor reconstruction?