Archive for the ‘Coating’ Category
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
In the free webcast Innovative Conformal Coating Technologies for Advanced Medical Devices on 3 May 2012, participants will learn how parylene has solved device performance and material challenges. Coatings have been used in the medical device industry for more than 30 years to modify electrical and friction properties, enhance chemical ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing a new antimicrobial coating for catheters, according to a Society for General Microbiology press release. The coating could potentially also be used for other medical implants, such as artificial heart valves and prosthetic devices. The team has investigated several positively charged compounds, ...
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Tecvac Ltd (Cambridge, UK) has designed and built a surface engineering research machine for the Research Centre in Surface Engineering at the University of Sheffield.
Combining two physical vapour deposition coating technologies in a single production-scale vacuum chamber, the Tecvac IP 70 will be used both for fundamental research and ...
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
Guest blog from Paul Wilkins, Senior Consultant, Sagentia (Cambridge, UK)
Bringing a radical technology to market is very difficult but the rewards—to inventors and the industry as a whole—can be phenomenal. Many large companies have put significant or risky R&D programmes on hold until economic conditions improve, and so start-ups are ...
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
DSM Biomedical (Heerlen, Netherlands) and EPflex (Dettingen an der Erms, Germany) have announced that they will collaborate on a new set of guidewires with ComfortCoat hydrophilic coating, a proprietary DSM technology. EPflex, a manufacturer of metallic single use products for minimally invasive surgery, will manufacture the guidewires and DSM, a ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
From the wire: MIT engineers have developed a nanoscale biological coating that can halt bleeding nearly instantaneously, an advance that could dramatically improve survival rates for soldiers injured in battle.
The researchers, led by Paula Hammond and funded by MIT’s Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies and Denmark-based Ferrosan Medical Devices a/s, created ...
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
A study by University of Gothenburg researchers details how the body's innate immune system can be tricked to accept implants with nanosized metal particles. The study demonstrates a method of producing nanostructures on gold surfaces. The researchers created gold particles in the size of 10-18 nm in diameter and bound ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
Researchers at Toyobo Co. (Osaka, Japan) have developed an antithrombogenic coating that could suppress systemic inflammatory response (SIR) syndrome. By using biologically active agents instead of heparin, the scientists were able to dramatically improve the materials’ inhibition of SIR.
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
As medical devices and components become smaller and more complex, they present unique challenges for many conformal coatings. Poly(para-xylylene), better known as Parylene, is an ultrathin, inert, transparent coating that meets these challenges by providing dielectric and barrier properties, extreme chemical inertness and freedom from ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
A research team at Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) has developed multifunctional surface coatings that enable bone tissue to form in areas were it did not originally exist, according to a university press release. The research is described in a dissertation by Sonya Piskounova.
The coatings consist of a layer of hydroxyapatite, ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
[caption id="attachment_24802" align="alignleft" width="154" caption="Artificial knee joint coated with a ‘Medthin’ coating from Ionbond that minimises wear and reduces metallic ion concentrations."][/caption]
Ionbond announced the successful ISO 13485 certification of its service centre in Olten, Switzerland. It is the fourth Ionbond centre globally to be awarded the certification.
“ISO 13485 defines ...
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
CamStent Ltd., an emerging medical materials company, has announced the results from a study which demonstrate that the company’s first product from its surface coating platform exerts strong antimicrobial effects against the organisms primarily responsible for hospital-acquired urinary-tract infections. CamStent’s first surface coating product, which was developed at the University of ...
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