Publications by authors named "Arthur Schlothauer"
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- Polymers like PEEK show promise as replacements for heart valve components due to their durability, flexibility, and low reactivity, but hemocompatibility issues need addressing.
- Research findings demonstrate that increasing the crystallinity of PEEK enhances its hemocompatibility, leading to significantly lower platelet adhesion, hemolysis, and thrombin generation.
- The CF/PEEK composite showed superior performance in hemocompatibility and mechanical properties, suggesting that optimizing crystallinity can lead to advancements in cardiovascular device design.
The realization of concurrently largely expandable and selectively rigid structures poses a fundamental challenge in modern engineering and materials research. Radially expanding structures in particular are known to require a high degree of deformability to achieve considerable dimension change, which restrains achievable stiffness in the direction of expanding motion. Mechanically hinged or plastically deformable wire-mesh structures and pressurized soft materials are known to achieve large expansion ratios, however often lack stiffness and require complex actuation.
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