SPE’s First European Medical Polymers Conference consisted of over thirty technical papers delivered by an international group of authors who are experts in their various fields.

Contents Include:
Processability of Biodegradable Bio-Polymers for Biomedical Applications, Tailored Polymers for Biomedical Applications – Polyurethane Nanocomposite Elastomers and Thermoplastic Starch, General Overview of Medical Grade Thermoplastic Polyurethanes, Polyamide 12 and PEBA Developments for the Medical Field, Transparent Plastics with Superior Environmental Stress Crack Resistance, Polyetheretherketone for Use in Implantable Medical Devices – Key Attributes and Sterilization Resistance, Micro p-aramid Composite Rods to Replace Stainless Steel Wire as Reinforcement in Medical Devices, Development of an E-Beam Radiation Compliant Medical Device, Poly (ether-block-amide) Nanoclay Composites, Breaking Material Limitations in Selective Laser Sintering - an Opportunity for Medical Additive Processing, The use of Activ-Polymers in healthcare packaging, Assessing the Properties and Characteristics of PETG and APET for Medical Tray Applications, All Plastics are not Created Equal; the Need for Specificity in Accelerated Aging Testing, Polymer Electromagnetic Composites for Local Hyperthermia in Treatment of Malignant Tumours, Lowering the Melt Temperature in the Injection Moulding Process for Medical Polylactide Grades, Sustained Release Polymeric Matrices for Oral Drug Delivery from a Supercritical Fluid Assisted Extrusion Process, Advantages in Design by Laser Welding of Co-Extruded Thermoplastic Elastomers, Capillary Rheometry - a Technique Sensitive Enough to Assess the Radiation Tolerance of Polymers, Medical Device Extrusion - a Practitioners Perspective, Advances in Small Scale Processing Equipment for Medical and Biopolymers