nanomedicine-2017-keynote

2 / 9

Page 10
Notes:
Biol Med Case Rep 2017 | Volume 1 Issue 2
alliedacademies
November 06-07, 2017 | New Orleans, USA
Nanomedicine & Healthcare
Global Meet on
New paradigms in the research and development of
nanocarbon thin films are providing the bases for new
physics, new materials science and chemistry, and their impact
in a new generation of multifunctional biomedical devices.
This talk will focus on discussing the science and technology
of the new paradigm material named ultrananocrystalline
diamond (UNCDTM) in thin film formand integration into a new
generation of medical devices and implants as described below:
UNCD films co-developed and patented by O. Auciello and
colleagues are synthesizedby novel microwave plasma chemical
vapor deposition and hot filament chemical vapor deposition
techniques using an Ar-rich/CH4 chemistry that produces films
with 2-5nm grains. The fundamental science underlying the
synthesis and properties of the UNCD films and applications
to devices will be discussed. The UNCD films exhibit the
lowest friction coefficient (0.02-0.04) compared with metals
(≥0.5) currently used in many prostheses (e.g., hips, knees),
electrically conductive UNCD coatings with nitrogen in grain
boundaries can enable a newgeneration of neural electrodes,
UNCD coatings are extremely biocompatible. Original
biomedical implants (OBI-USA) and OBI-México, founded
by Auciello and colleagues, are developing new generations
of implantable medical devices based on the biocompatible
UNCD coatings, namely: UNCD-coated silicon based
microchip implantable inside the eye as a key component of
the artificial retina to return partial vision blind by genetically-
induced degeneration of photoreceptors; new generation of
Li-ion batteries with ≥10x longer life and safer, using UNCD-
based electrodes, membranes and inner wall battery case,
enable next generation of defibrillator/pacemakers; new
generation of implantable prostheses (e.g., dental implants,
hips, knees) coated with UNCD eliminates failure of current
metal-based implants due to synergistic mechanical wear/
chemical corrosion by body fluids and UNCD-coated polymer
with brain neurons tailored stiffness enables next generation
less invasive electrodes for neural stimulation.
Speaker Biography
Orlando Auciello has graduated with MS (1973) and PhD (1976) degrees in Physics
from the Physics Institute Dr. Balseiro (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo-Argentina)
EE-University of Córdoba-Argentina (1970). He was a Researcher in the University
of Toronto-Canada (1979-1984), Associate Professor-NCSU-USA (1985-1988),
Distinguished Scientist-MCNC-USA (1988-1996) and a Distinguished Argonne Fellow
(1996-2012)-Argonne National Laboratory-USA. Currently, he is the distinguished Chair
in University of Texas-Dallas. He is directing basic and applied research programs on
multifunctional oxide and novel ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) thin films and
application to industrial, high-tech, and medical devices. The UNCD film technology is
commercialized for industrial products by Advanced Diamond Technologies, founded
by him and his colleagues, (2003, profitable in 2014), and by original biomedical
implants (OBI-USA, 2013) and OBI-México (2016) for medical devices. He has Edited
20 books and published about 500 articles in several fields, holds 20 patents. He is an
Associate Editor of APL and Integrated Ferroelectrics, he was President of the Materials
Research Society (2013) and the Fellow of AAAS and MRS.
e:
Orlando Auciello
University of Texas-Dallas, USA
Science and technology of multifunctional ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCDTM)
coatings and applications to a new generation of implantable medical devices