Chair
Andres Diaz Lantada
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Spain
Scope and topics
Workshop "AMMD Active Materials for Medical Devices" should pay attention to all kinds biodevices, mainly implantable or quirurgical, for diagnosis or treatment of different pathologies, which benefit from the use of active materials as sensors or actuators.
Such Active or "Intelligent" Materials are capable of responding in a controlled way to different external physical or chemical stimuli by changing some of their properties. These materials can be used to design and develop sensors, actuators and multifunctional systems with a large number of applications for developing medical devices.
Among these materials the most promising ones for such devices are:
- Piezoelectric materials
- Piroelectric materials
- Shape-memory Alloys
- Shape-memory Polymers
- Electroactive Polymers
- Magnetorheological Materials
- Electrochromical Materials
- Multifunctional Composites
- and other subtypes
Current work on these field entails problems related to synthesis, characterization, modelling, simulation, processing and prototyping technologies, all of which could be treated in depth in the AMMD Workshop.
Important Dates
Regular Paper Submission: October 17, 2008
Authors Notification: November 10, 2008
Final Paper Submission and Registration: November 17, 2008
Workshop Program Committee
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA
Antonio Barrientos, DISAM – Cibernetics and Robotics Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Javier Echavarri, Machines and Mechanisms Laboratory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
José Luis Endrino, Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Spain
Moustapha Hafez, French Atomic Energy Commision, CEA-LIST, France
Scott Huelskamp, CRG Industries, LLC, USA
Pilar Lafont, Machine Engineering Investigation Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez, Universidade do Minho. Portugal
Jesús Latorre, Business Transformation, Spain
Vicente Lorenzo, Grupo Polímeros, Caracterización y Aplicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Héctor Lorenzo-Yustos, Product Development Laboratory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Juan Manuel Munoz-Guijosa, Machine Engineering Investigation Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Alexander Martínez, DISAM – Cibernetics and Robotics Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Julio Muñoz-García, Machine Engineering Investigation Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Submission of Papers
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the
topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats)
are available at the conference Paper Templates web page. Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically
via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris
Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings
book, under an ISBN reference, and in CD-ROM support.
Registration Information
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the
workshop. If the registration fees are not received by November 17,
2008 the paper will not be published in the workshop proceedings
book.
Secretariat Contacts
BIOSTEC Workshops - AMMD 2009
e-mail: secretariat@biostec.org
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