Talk:Biomaterial

Applications
I'd like to add some more specifics to the applications sections. giving interesting examples and links to relvant pages. MichChemGSI (talk) 15:49, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Term Clarification
The term "biomaterials" is used frequently by research scientists. Could someone please post a disambiguation for this term? --Aciel

This page cannot just exist as a disambiguation. I'll work on this. --User:CapFan —Preceding comment was added at 22:20, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

There we go - made some slight changes!--User:CapFan —Preceding comment was added at 23:09, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I have put together the article so far, but am still working on it to try and improve its quality and add more details, so what you see is pretty much a "still in progress" version. --User:CapFan

Proposed merges
I propose we merge bio-based material and biotic material into biomaterial, and then rename the resultant article "Uses of organic matter", as part of a major reshuffle of articles. Please feel free to join in the discussion here. Thanks :) Anxietycello (talk) 02:46, 9 July 2008 (UTC).
 * Bio-based material and biomaterial are used differently in practice. The meaning of bio-based material is clear; biomaterial is commonly used in biomedical engineering for materials that are 'bio-compatable' but not necessarily 'bio-based'.  I think a biomedical engineer would call a plastic material used to make medical implants a biomaterial.  I don't think the these terms are the best, but they are the terms we've got. ike9898 (talk) 13:44, 9 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I disagree with the proposal to merge and rename - Some senses of biomaterial are very distinct. biomaterial could become a disambiguation page leading to biomaterial(medical} ?  Rod57 (talk) 18:10, 4 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree with Rod57 that it might be a good idea to create a isambiguation page with Biomaterial(medical) and Biomaterial(matter) with the latter relating to any source of organic of matter. I oppose any merger of Biomaterial(medical) and biocompatible material for the simple reason there are no generically biocompatible materials. the biocompatibility depends on the clinical context or application, hence easy to realise that no single material can be biocompatible. furthermore the term biocompatibility is a bit misleading as it may be better to relate to the medical device rather than a material that normally is just one component. Benkeboy (talk) 11:27, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

biomaterials science
The biomaterials science section could split out in to a separate article so this one can concentrate on the materials themselves. Rod57 (talk) 14:07, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Definition of Biomaterial
D Williams recenty suggested a new definition of a biomaterial: "A biomaterial is a substance that has been engineered to take a form which, alone or as part of a complex system, is used to direct, by control of interactions with components of living systems, the course of any therapeutic or diagnostic procedure, in human or veterinary medicine.". D.F. Williams "On the nature of biomaterials", Biomaterials 30(30):5897, 2009 DOI 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2009.07.027 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benkeboy (talk • contribs) 11:38, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Lead Section
The lead section (above the outline) does not state what biomaterials are, summarize the article, or explain the considerable notability and importance of the subject, as laid out in WP:LEAD. I can't work on it myself for the next few days, so in the meanwhile I'm tagging it with a rewrite template in case anyone else wants to take a shot. Vonschlesien (talk) 21:55, 17 August 2010 (UTC)