What are Biomaterials?

Biomaterials are natural or artificial special functional materials that are used to contact and interact with living systems and can diagnose, treat, replace, repair or induce regeneration of their cells, tissues and organs. Biomedical materials. Biomaterials is a cross-penetrating field in the field of materials science. Its research content involves materials science, life science, chemistry, biology, anatomy, pathology, clinical medicine, pharmacology and other disciplines. Involved in engineering technology and management science. Biological materials include synthetic materials and natural materials; single materials, composite materials, and hybrid materials composed of living cells or natural tissues combined with inanimate materials. Biomaterials are not drugs themselves, and their treatment approach is based on direct binding and interaction with biological organisms. ^[1]

biomaterials

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Since the late 1990s, the world's biomaterial science and technology have developed rapidly. Even in the current global economic downturn, biomaterials have maintained a rapid growth rate of 13% per year, which fully reflects their strong vitality and broad development prospects.

When biomaterials are implanted in the human body, they can have effects on local tissues and the whole body. It mainly includes local tissue response and systemic immune response.

Biomaterial definition

Biological materials usually have two definitions: narrowly defined biological materials refer to natural biological materials, that is, materials formed by biological processes. Biomaterial in the broad sense refers to natural or artificial materials used to replace and repair tissues and organs.

Biomaterials

Biomaterials is a science that involves the relationship and regularity of the composition, structure, performance, and preparation of biological materials. Its main purpose is to develop bionics high-performance engineering materials and new medical materials for the repair and replacement of human tissues and organs based on the analysis of natural biomaterials micro-assembly, biological functions and formation mechanisms. Its main research contents are: the material structure formed by biological processes, the principle of biomineralization, the biocompatibility mechanism of materials, the principle of self-assembly of biomaterials, and the principle of self-repair.