The Role of Surface Modification on Bacterial Adhesion of Bio-implant Materials: Machining, Characterization, and Applications

The Role of Surface Modification on Bacterial Adhesion of Bio-implant Materials: Machining, Characterization, and Applications, explores the relationship between the surface roughness of artificial implants used for hard tissue replacement and their bacterial adhesion. It summarizes the reason for the failure of implants, the mechanisms of bacterial formation on implant surfaces, and the fundamental and established methods of implant surface modification techniques. It provides readers with an organized and rational representation about implant manufacturing and mechanical surface modification. It also explores the use of developed unidirectional abrasive flow finishing processes to finish biomaterials at the nano-level. It is an invaluable guide for academics, graduate students, biomaterial scientists, and manufacturing engineers researching implants, related infections, and implant manufacturing.

Key Features:

• Explores implant related infections
• Discusses surface modification techniques
• Contains information on the mechanical finishing processes and complete guide on developed cutting edge unidirectional abrasive flow finishing technology

Somashekhar S. Hiremath works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He received the doctoral degree in 2004 from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As a credential he received two national awards: 1. Innovative Student Project Award 2005 for best Ph.D thesis, 2. Prof. K. Arumugam National Award for Innovative Research Work in Engineering and Technology. He has published many papers in National and International level and guided many MS and Ph.D scholars. His current research areas are micromachining, nanomaterials synthesis, hydraulic hybrids, mechatronics system design, precision engineering, FEM and hybrid machining processes.

Santhosh Kumar S received his BE degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 from Visvesvaraya Technological University, ME degree in Advanced Materials Technology in 2013 from UVCE, Bangalore and Ph.D in micro-machining from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2019. His current research areas of interest include micro-machining, surface engineering and rheology of complex fluids.