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I have included the patent that Amendia / Vivex filed that looked at a process called Mimetic etching.  Here they demonstrated bone growth into the treated cage without the use of allo or autograft (empty cage) in a sheep model. The process was laser etching of the cage to generate a micro architecture which was felt to mimic cancellous bone.  …This initiated out of a project with NASA laser project.  This process was very expensive and time consuming.  The interesting fact is they treated a block of quartz with this process and used the block to run electric devices in space (i.e. a battery)….[It seems that Mimetic etching] is possible and potentially an economical way to develop a surface technology.  The other thing to remember is that it does not appear that carbon products act under electromagnetic fields like metallic materials do (heat, field distortion, etc.).

Added by DJM 7 2021