Martin W King

Martin W King currently works at the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science, North Carolina State University. Martin heads the Biomedical Textiles Research Group and performs research in the areas of Biotextiles, Biomaterials, Polymer Chemistry, Nanotechnology and Drug Delivery Systems. Current projects include the design, fabrication and evaluation of polymeric bioresorbable cardiovascular stents, stent-grafts and hernia meshes. Of particular interest is the use of textile technologies to design and fabricate scaffolds for a range of different tissue engineering applications including multiple tissue junctions.