TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Capturing the Full Power of Biomaterials for Military Medicine: Report of a Workshop SN - 978-0-309-09283-8 DO - 10.17226/11063 PY - 2004 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11063/capturing-the-full-power-of-biomaterials-for-military-medicine-report PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Conflict and Security Issues KW - Biology and Life Sciences AB - Recent results in biomaterials R&D suggest that there are exceptional opportunities for these emerging materials in military medicine. To facilitate this possibility, the National Research Council convened a workshop at the request of the Department of Defense to help create a technology development roadmap to enhance military R&D into biomaterials technology. The workshop focused primarily on identifying useful near- and mid-term applications of biomaterials including wound care, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and physiological sensors and diagnostics. This report presents a summary of the workshop. It provides a review of biomaterials and their importance to military medicine, the roadmap, and a discussion of ways to enable biomaterials development. Several important outcomes of successful capture of potential benefits of these materials are also discussed. ER -