...Yeowon Yoon; Yang Xu; Yong Chen Inspired by porous morphology in nature, such as bone and lung tissues, synthetic porous materials are widely adopted in engineering applications that require lightweight, thermal resistance, energy absorption, and structural flexibility. One of the main challenges...

... elongation forming processes metal foams porous materials sheet metal processing tantalum Over the past decade, a superior bone ingrowth material, or scaffold, has been developed from an open-cell tantalum foam. This novel material, known commercially as Trabecular Metal TM (TM), has...

... designers. Because of the unique characteristics of the material, several departures were necessary from the ASTM standardized test method. These changes resulted from the desired implant geometries, the manufacturability of TM, its nature as a porous material, and the fact that TM is used in vivo...

... was conducted to examine cell growth behavior in the fabricated porous structures. 27 04 2007 05 11 2007 07 03 2008 biological techniques biomedical ultrasonics diffusion polymers porous materials porous polymer high intensity focused ultrasound selective ultrasonic foaming...

... – 542 . 17 10 2004 26 02 2006 polymer foams porous materials stereo image processing measurement systems grid computing quality control production engineering computing Novel metal, ceramic, carbon, and polymer porous foams are new classes of materials with unique...