In conjunction with the 2nd International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC 2009

Chair
Andres Diaz Lantada
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Spain


Scope and topics
Workshop "AMMD Active Materials for Medical Devices" should pay attention to all kinds biodevices, mainly implantable or quirurgical, for diagnosis or treatment of different pathologies, which benefit from the use of active materials as sensors or actuators.
Such Active or "Intelligent" Materials are capable of responding in a controlled way to different external physical or chemical stimuli by changing some of their properties. These materials can be used to design and develop sensors, actuators and multifunctional systems with a large number of applications for developing medical devices.

Among these materials the most promising ones for such devices are:
- Piezoelectric materials
- Piroelectric materials
- Shape-memory Alloys
- Shape-memory Polymers
- Electroactive Polymers
- Magnetorheological Materials
- Electrochromical Materials
- Multifunctional Composites
- and other subtypes

Current work on these field entails problems related to synthesis, characterization, modelling, simulation, processing and prototyping technologies, all of which could be treated in depth in the AMMD Workshop.


Workshop Program Committee
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA
Antonio Barrientos, DISAM - Cibernetics and Robotics Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Javier Echavarri, Machines and Mechanisms Laboratory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
José Luis Endrino, Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Spain
Moustapha Hafez, French Atomic Energy Commision, CEA-LIST, France
Scott Huelskamp, CRG Industries, LLC, USA
Pilar Lafont, Machine Engineering Investigation Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez, Universidade do Minho. Portugal
Jesús Latorre, Business Transformation, Spain
Vicente Lorenzo, Grupo Polímeros, Caracterización y Aplicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Héctor Lorenzo-Yustos, Product Development Laboratory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Juan Manuel Munoz-Guijosa, Machine Engineering Investigation Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Alexander Martínez, DISAM - Cibernetics and Robotics Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Julio Muñoz-García, Machine Engineering Investigation Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain