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Biomimetics, can be defined as learning from a range of natural structures in order to attempt to duplicate these processes systematically for medical and engineering applications.

In the past few decades remarkable progress has been made in the research and development of natural and synthetic materials and devices for bio-medical applications designed to improve human well-being and longevity.

Investigation of natural structures, their composition,morphologies, and characterisation of natural materials and structures involves a wide spectrum of activities from the original concept to the synthesis and their clinical applications. This in turn necessitates collaborative applied research in various fields of natural sciences, engineering and medicine in order to embrace the interdisciplinary needs of biomedical materials.
 
Natural Skeletal Structures express a variety of intricate internet architectures with a range of porosities, pore shapes and interconnections

 


Sol-gel production of bioactive nanocoatings for medical applications


   Biomimetics sol-gel nanocoating technique has been developed
with a number of university researchers from a chemistry
background. The research was initiated in 1989 for micron size
powder production. Until then all attempts were thicker
hydroxyapatite coatings produced with thermal or spray processes
(over 30-50 micron) and powders. It took around 11 years
to produce pure, homogeneous well bonded highly bioactive and
bone-like apatite coatings which were then applied to a PCT
and granted in USA and Australia.Our Europe patent is pending.

Since Biomimetics initiation many researchers attempted to
produce similar coats with a range of chemistries Biomimetic’s
bone like apatite coating is the purest with excellent adhesion
properties to a range of medical implants and engineering
materials including bone grafts.
 
Since 2001 Professor Ben-Nissan has been publishing research about various aspects of the nanocoatings including the
latest two which discuss the sol gel process. To see a list of Biomimetics research publications here
  Biomimetics research history

In the 80's Biomimetics approached and received grants to develop a range of oxide and mix oxide sol-gel powders and coatings
for a range of electro-optic, magnetic and engineering applications. Our principle focus was on the medical applications and on the areas of biocompatible materials.

In the late 1980's and early 1990's Biomimetics set out to solve the clinical problems that existed of thick plasma and thermal spray coated implants. Chemical bonding problems to the bone and helping the patients with developing a nano-layer bioactive coating
took a significant amount of time. Developing the appropriate chemistry to produce the carbonate apatite which is a bone like
material was a drawn out process requiring the innovation of our expert researchers in the field.

  
Throughout the 1990’s Biomimetics endeavored to improve the adhesion to a range of medical implants. In those early
development stages the different chemistry and coating methods used were evaluated countless times. By the year 2000
we had completed our model and applied to provisional and later to PCT through the UTS Sydney, those right were later
transferred Biomimetic’s parent company Nanocoatings Pty Ltd which incorporates our inventors and investors.		  



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