[Untitled]
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Luigi Costa; E.M. Brach del Prever; Maria Paola Luda
- Source
- Angewandte Makromolekulare Chemie. 247:31-43
- Subject
- Thermal oxidation
Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene
Materials science
Kinetics
Biomaterial
Mineralogy
Polyethylene
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Chemical engineering
In vivo
Microscopy
Degradation (geology)
General Materials Science
- Language
- ISSN
- 1522-9505
0003-3146
Mechanical and thermal oxidation of UHMWPE used in the preparation of prosthetic implants is studied and the mechanisms of degradation are reported. Oxidation of new and retrieved prosthetic implants are studied by IR microscopy and clear evidence of oxidation in vivo is shown.