The Company expects similar results can be obtained with a wide variety of other thermoplastics, including polyetheretherketone (PEEK). This particulate embedding approach represents an additional way to impart silicon nitride's beneficial biologic properties to conventional inert biomaterials. "The significance of this study is twofold—it affirms that silicon nitride can be effectively integrated with novel thermoplastic-based biomaterials, and it supports our broader vision of combination materials tailor ...