POLY 28 |
| Blood is a very demanding customer when you have to tailor a material to suit all its needs. The use of advanced medical devices in blood filtration and blood storage is crucial to enhance transfusion safety and efficacy. The design of the right materials for a medical device involves issues from different fields: medicine, biology, chemistry and physics. The answer to the question posed embraces the complexity of the problem: even relatively simple devices may contain a lot of technology and science in their manufacturing. With the present talk, using blood filters as an interesting example, we would like to give an image of the exciting labyrinth that a polymer scientist has to walk through everyday, to offer always better care for patients and therefore ensure them a better life. |
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Polymer Science of Everyday Things
8:25 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, August 19, 2007 Westin Boston Waterfront -- Otis, Oral
Division of Polymer Chemistry |