Inventors from the Laboratory of Nanostructures and Nanomedycine receive on March, 1 2022, intelectual property rights to United States Patent No 11,260,148B2 under the title:

„METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BONE IMPLANTS AND BONE IMPLANT”,

 United States Patent, Święszkowski et al.

Mutual efforts result of laboratory research team as well as excellent co-workers of many fields. Elaboration and patent of the method for manufacturing bone implant, gave us possibility to participate in many very important projects like: BIOIMPLANT, GOIMPLANT, SONOSCA, NANOLIGABOND, iTE. These projects were results of co-operation within consortia, which one of the most prominent members was Faculty of Materials Engineering, Warsaw Technical University.

Biodegradable barrier membrane - PDF

 Membrane Fabrication:

On April 22, 2020, in the Municipal Zoological Garden in Warsaw, 4 kittens of Wilma and Fred's cheetahs were born. After a few months, it turned out that one of the kittens, and then the another is limping and shows some difficulties in movement. Doctors after routine X-ray examination found that kittens suffer from complicated bone fractures of the paws.

Photo 1. Baby cheetahs. Source: Municipal Zoological Garden in Warsaw

The Laboratory of Nanostructures at IWC PAS has developed an innovative technology for the synthesis of hydroxyapatite* nanoparticles - a synthetic equivalent of the mineral responsible for bone formation. Thanks to this technology, it is possible to obtain nanoparticles of precisely controlled size.

* Patent-protected technology: PAT.235292 „Method for of producing nano-plates of synthetic hydroxyapatite and nanopowder comprising a synthetic hydroxyapatite nano-plates”