Overview
- Summarizes investigations and tribological approaches on the low-friction mechanism of synovial joints
- Discloses the role of cholesteric liquid crystals in high lubricating and chondroprotective action
- Explains the development of intra- and extra-articular medicaments for treatment of synovial joints
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering (BIOMEDICAL)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Biological mechanisms of reducing joint friction
- Biomechanics of joint synovia
- Boundary lubrication in synovial joints
- Cholesteric liquid crystals
- Friction and lubrication of solids
- Friction, wear, and lubrication of joints
- Intra-articular friction
- Lubrication properties of synovia
- Reducing joint friction
- Treatment of joint pathologies
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Liquid Crystals in Biotribology
Book Subtitle: Synovial Joint Treatment
Authors: Sergey Ermakov, Alexandr Beletskii, Oleg Eismont, Vladimir Nikolaev
Series Title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20349-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20348-5Published: 21 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37371-3Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20349-2Published: 11 July 2015
Series ISSN: 1618-7210
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5647
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 211
Number of Illustrations: 96 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Conservative Orthopedics