RESEARCH TEAM

Gaetano Burriesci (Supervisor)

Applications to cardiovascular implants

George Hamilton (Co-Supervisor) *

Clinical supervision

Farshad Salamat-Zadeh **

(Industr. Sup.) Bonding technologies

Rashmi Raju (Research Student)

Project investigator

* UCL Centre for Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine

** TWI Group, UK

COLLABORATORS & SPONSORS

An improved understanding of structural implications of the different joining techniques that can find potential application in superelastic shape memory alloys is essential in a number of cardiovascular medical devices, including transcatheter valves, angioplasty stents and stented grafts.  Similarly, the emerging of novel biocompatible polymers suitable for the design of structural components, grafts, scaffolds, and media for drug delivery, demands an improvement of their bonding onto supporting metal frames.

The proposed project aims at maximizing the durability of new generation cardiovascular implants by enhancing the joint of superelastic metal frames, as well as the bonding between the polymer/soft tissue and the metal frame. 

The research is performed between the UCL Department of Mechanical Engineering and TWI (World Centre for Materials Joining Technology). 

Joining Technologies for Cardiovascular Implants

improving safety durability of

next generation cardiovascular implants