Composites as Biomaterials

Composites are materials that contain more than one component with different physical, chemical, and structural characteristics, and each component contributes with its properties to the final product in order to reach a desirable purpose. Research on engineered composites emerged in the 1960s, and the first composites were produced for automobile and aerospace ifigndustries to have tough, stable, and mechanically stronger materials and to have exceeding performance. Therefore, the definition of a composite was given as “combinations of two materials in which one of them is named as the reinforcing phase (in the form of fibers, sheets, or particles) embedded in the second matrix material.”