Future trends for the sterilisation of biomaterials and medical devices

Abstract: Sterilisation technologies have remained essentially unchanged over the past 30 years. This chapter looks to the future and reviews how changes in materials, the incorporation of new technologies into current methods and the modification of existing methods could expand the horizons of medical device sterilisation in the future.

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