They retain their mechanical properties over a wide temperature range (−70° to 150° C, or about −95° to 300° F) and are used as wire coatings, for fabricating household and plumbing items, and for automotive parts.
For instance, biomaterials used as load-bearing prostheses for hips and knees should retain their mechanical function for the lifetime of the patient.
Furthermore, mortars containing aged cement/RDP blends retained their mechanical properties much better than mortars casted from cement which had been aged individually.
These polymer systems retain their mechanical properties after exposure to extreme conditions (e.g., two weeks, 69 MPa, 100 °C, pH 12), but degrade in the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol (2-ME).
Surprisingly, blends based on 6-arm star-shaped poly d,l-lactide-co-glycolide) retain their mechanical properties for a longer period than blends with linear matrices of comparable composition.
With the aim to obtain materials that retain their mechanical properties at body temperature, we propose to combine sodium alginate and methacrylamide-modified gelatin (Gel-MOD) in the form of a graft copolymer to obtain a material that closely resembles the extracellular matrix.
Oxidized CNTs acquire solubility in aqueous solutions, but retain their mechanical and electrical properties.
Irrespective of total biopolymer concentration the gels with a higher high acyl proportion retain their mechanical properties better at low pH.
Polydioxanone tracheal stents appear to be well tolerated by the tracheal mucosa, retain their mechanical strength for as long as 6 weeks, and, in animal models, completely degrade after approximately 15 weeks [ 10].
All ion implanted samples retained their bulk mechanical properties, i.e. they remained flexible.
