Archive for the ‘Coating’ Category
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Think of it as the confection that holds together a fruitcake. That is how Michael Scholl, CEO of Leukocare, described his company’s surface functionalisation and binding technology to BIOMEDevice Europe attendees. It was one of several papers presented under the thematic umbrella of Enabling Technologies for Manufacturing Combination Products at ...
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Sono-Tek Corp. has expanded its ultrasonic technology to include systems for the application of ultra-thin film functional coatings onto various medical devices such as catheters, balloons, orthopaedic implants, endoscopic instruments, pacemakers, heart valves and related products. As functional coating formulations improve and devices get smaller, demand has surged for equipment ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Bayer MaterialScience, a leading polymer company, is to acquire PolyBioMed Ltd, a subsidiary of Lombard Medical Technologies plc, which provides polymer coatings, surface treatments and biomaterials. The acquisition gives Bayer MaterialScience access to application areas such as coronary drug eluting stents and catheter systems for interventional cardiology, urology and neurology.
The ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
While millions of people receive implants every year ranging from teeth to hip joints, developing the perfect material for orthopaedic and dental implants has been proven quite difficult. Scientists have discovered that the body's response to nanomaterials is different than its reaction to conventional materials and that nanopatterning of the ...
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Evonik Industries, based in Essen, Germany, has concluded an agreement with Ibeda Sicherheitsgeräte und Gastechnik GmbH & Co. KG (Neustadt/Wied Germany) that will offer customers a complete solution for the application of Vestakeep coatings by the flame-spray process. The mobile IBEDA system F311 FX-S makes it possible to coat large ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
A series of free one-day seminars on coating with Parylene will take place in France and Germany in April. Organised by Specialty Coating Systems, the seminars will address some of the most common surface modification challenges facing the medical device and other industries.
A choice of locations are offered:
Toulouse, France – ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Electrospinning uses an electrical charge to turn polymers into extremely thin fibres that are “spun” to form a mat. The Micro-Nano Technology Centre (MNTC) (formerly the Central Microstructure Facility) of the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council has developed systems to increase the production rate of electrospun nanofibres; low rates ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Vascular access grafts are primarily used in patients with kidney failure to provide an access point for dialysis. Technical Director at BioInteractions, Dr Shiv Sandhu, explained that the “high incidence of major complications such as thrombosis and infection in the use of vascular access grafts impedes treatment, leading to reintervention ...
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