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Biol Med Case Rep 2017 | Volume 1 Issue 2

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November 06-07, 2017 | New Orleans, USA

Nanomedicine & Healthcare

Global Meet on

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ew 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/CH

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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.

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orlando.auciello@utdallas.edu

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