ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Using electromechanical stimulations on bone remodeling to speed-up repair bone damage
Osteoporosis is a major concern in Europe, resulting in 4.3 million fragility fractures and health care costs in excess of €56 billion annually. Bone, a smart material, can detect microcracks or microdamages and to repair these microdefects due to its growth and remodeling capabilities in the presence of electro-mechanical stimuli. Dry and wet bone involve matrix piezoelectricity, namely a coupling between deformation and polarization. Flexoelectricity, the phenomenon coupling deformation gradients and polarization, still presents experimental and theoretical challenges. Bone biomechanics has been resistant to progress due to the complexity of the propagation of information across the…
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