Additive manufacture of PEEK cranial implants: Manufacturing considerations versus accuracy and mechanical performance
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 6020
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.matdes.2017.10.078
- Title of journal
- Materials and Design
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- First page
- 141
- Volume
- 139
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0264-1275
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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G - Materials and Manufacturing
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Rapid manufacture of patient-specific cranial implants requires geometric accuracy and consistent properties to meet regulatory standards. This paper was the first to address these issues for PEEK additively manufactured implants. Further research related to this paper has taken place in fourteen countries. Industrial sponsors, Victrex, have subsequently invested £1.5m in further research with CALM at Exeter, one author (Berretta) has joined the company and cranial implants have a recently estimated billion-dollar global market [Global Cranial Implants Market Report (2019-2025): https://www.reportlinker.com/p05832279/Global-Cranial-Implants-Market.html?utm_source=PRN]
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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