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Carbon Foam Medical Applications

CFOAM® carbon foam has found a most unusual place in the medical community.

Because some carbon foams have microstructures and mechanical properties like bone, CFOAM carbon foam has been used as a bone replacement for experimentation and training purposes.

CFOAM® Carbon Foam via scanning electron microscopy.

Bone morphology via scanning electron microscopy.

CFOAM carbon foam is inexpensive and available in large quantities, and it can be supplied with a variety of properties, making it an attractive analog to bone for experimenting with implants and other fasteners and attachments. It can be drilled, cut, and shaped with a number of instruments.

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Email: CFOAMinfo@trl.com

CFOAM® is a registered trademark of Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd.
CFOAM® products may be covered under the following patents with more patents pending:
6,656,238 - 6,656,239 - 6,689,470 - 6,749,652 - 6,814,765 - 6,833,011 - 6,833,012 -
6,849,098 - 6,860,910 - 6,861,151 - 6,869,455 - 6,899,970 - 7,192,537 - 7,247,368

 
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