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Laser-processed coatings transform modern healthcare technology, offering control over surface properties to enhance the performance and longevity of medical devices. Using laser-based techniques can improve surface characteristics like roughness, chemistry, and microstructure without damaging the underlying material. This level of customization is valuable in applications like medical implants, surgical tools, and antimicrobial surfaces, where biocompatibility, wear resistance, and infection control are critical. As advancements in laser processing continue, these coatings improve patient outcomes, reduce complications, and enable the next generation of biomedical devices. Biomedical Applications of Laser-Processed Coatings explores laser-processed coatings and their emerging role in biomedical applications. It examines how laser-based techniques, such as laser cladding, laser surface texturing, laser-assisted deposition, and femtosecond laser processing, revolutionize the development of functional coatings on medical implants, prosthetics, biosensors, and drug delivery devices. This book covers topics such as nanoparticles, bioactivity, and medical technologies, and is a useful resource for biologists, medical and healthcare professionals, engineers, academicians, researchers, and scientists.

Irina Negut is a Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Laser, Plasma, and Radiation Physics in the Lasers Department, specialized in laser processing of thin films. With a strong background in surface physics and engineering, her research focuses on developing advanced coatings and materials for biomedical, electronic, and other functional applications. Her expertise lies in laser-based thin film processing, employing techniques such as Pulsed Laser Deposition and Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation to fabricate and modify nanostructured coatings. She also works on the integration of nanoparticles and hybrid inorganic-organic materials to enhance biocompatibility and impart antimicrobial properties to different surfaces.

Carmen Ristoscu received a PhD in Physics from the University of Bucuresti in 2003. Dr. Ristoscu is Scientific Researcher 1st degree at National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR), Romania. The main topics of interest are: laser processing using (reactive) Pulsed Laser Deposition and Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation of various materials with potential applications in bio-nano-medicine; laser interactions; lasers and plasma physics; nanostructured thin films technology; surface physics and engineering.