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Review of Application of Nitinol in the Manufacture of Bone Staples

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Nickel titanium (commonly known as nitinol) is an alloy of nickel and titanium and is a nearly equiatomic alloy of nickel and titanium which exhibits two unique and closely related properties: shape memory effect and pseudoelasticity (also known as superelasticity). First discovered in 1959, these properties of nitinol have been exhaustively exploited in a multitude of applications in the robotics, aerospace, automotive, telecommunications and biomedical industries. Considering the fact that biocompatibility and biofunctionality are the primary attributes that a material must possess to qualify for use in the biomedical implant industry, nitinol is a premier choice. In this paper, in conjunction with the previously used orthopaedic implants, the design and advantages of the bone staple are discussed. A review of past and present materials used for manufacture of bone staples follows with a review of the methods available for manufacture of nitinol. This paper concludes that until a material possessing more biofunctionality and biocompatibility is discovered, nitinol is an ideal material for manufacture of bone staples.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering Department, D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Vile Parle (West), Mumbai, India

    Neel Sanghvi, Frank Crasta & Vijaya Kumar N. Kottur

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  1. Department of Production Engineering, Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Hari Vasudevan

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Vijaya Kumar N. Kottur

  3. Aerospace Group, Institute of Textile Technology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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Sanghvi, N., Crasta, F., Kottur, V.K.N. (2019). Review of Application of Nitinol in the Manufacture of Bone Staples. In: Vasudevan, H., Kottur, V., Raina, A. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Automation. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2490-1_28

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