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Archives

• Directions of Wear
• How Old are Your Knees?
• Poster: Building a Better Hip
• Poster: Michael Mayor Named to Allyn Professorship
• Poster: Orthopaediimmunolobioengineeringology
• Poster: Out on a Limb

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Links

Orthopaedic Manufacturers

• Biomet
• DePuy, Inc. a Johnson & Johnson Company
• Smith & Nephew
• Stryker Orthopaedics
• Zimmer, Inc.

Related Professional Societies and Research Organizations

• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
• American Orthopaedic Association
• American Society for Testing and Materials
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Joint Implant Surgery & Research Foundation
• Orthopaedic Research Society
• Society for Biomaterials
• UHMWPE Lexicon

Dartmouth Resources

• Dartmouth College
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
• Thayer School of Engineering

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Equipment

• A Jung microtome (Jung, Heidelberg, Germany) for thin sectioning UHMWPE (approximately 200 µm thick).

• Both a Perkin Elmer AutoImage Infrared Microscope (Norwalk, CT) and a Perkin Elmer Spectrum BXII (Norwalk, CT) for Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).

• A Perkin Elmer Pyris-6 DSC system with an intracooler and autosampler for calorimetry.
• Instron model 8501 and model 5544 servohydraulic load frames with pneumatic grips and non-contacting video extensiometers for mechanical and tensile testing.

• A Bendix Formax 5050 Profilometer for profile analysis.
• A Rolling Sliding Tribotester and a Pin on Disk Tribotester for wear testing.
• Accelerated Aging Bombs
• A Denver instruments Balance.
• A Sony TechnoLook digital microscope.
• A Donsanto disection Microscope.