Archive for the ‘Coating’ Category
Monday, April 15th, 2013
A nitriding technology that can be applied at low temperatures to nonconductive materials to improve wear and corrosion resistance has been acquired by ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH, an engineering unit of AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group NV. It is the first nitriding technology that is capable of treating the surface of ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2012
Instron, a provider of testing equipment designed to evaluate mechanical properties of materials and components, has introduced BioCoat: a polyurethane protective cover designed for Instron Series 5940 single column testing systems. Applications performed on the systems include mechanical low-force in-vitro testing of biomaterials and components as well as materials for ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2012
Here's something you might not know about licorice. Many medical products must be sterilised to prevent putting the patient at risk of infection, but the sterilisation process itself can be hazardous to biological components, which increasingly are used to functionalise devices. Researchers from Germany and Austria have tested a nanocoating ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2012
Medical devices that come in contact with human tissue must be carefully designed to avoid the rejection of implants, for instance. One way of enhancing biocompatibility is application of specialised coatings. European researchers have been working on developing biologically-based coatings that encourage cell activity and colonisation of implants at the same ...
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
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French company Ionitec, a subsidiary of Surfaces Synergie (Maîche, France), has developed an antimicrobial and self-cleaning titanium dioxide (TiO2) coating. The functional properties of the coating are triggered by exposure to a UV light source resulting in photocatalysis. The material and process have been ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
The Swedish medical device company Promimic has announced that a new study demonstrates that its nanothin implant coating HAnano Surface enables the implant material PEEK to integrate with bone. PEEK is a popular implant material, but implants made of PEEK typically require a coating to facilitate bone integration.
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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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