Archive for the ‘Materials’ Category
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
A new generation of shape-memory alloys that can “remember” several shapes has the potential to revolutionise an array of products including medical devices. Multiple Memory Material Technology, developed by engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, will enable expanded functionality in devices such as stents, braces and ...
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Change may be good under some circumstances, but not when it involves the materials used for medical devices and pharmaceutical packaging. To support industry's demand for reliability and consistency, materials supplier Clariant has announced that it will unveil its new brand of master batches and compounds for pharmaceutical and medical ...
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Sunday, August 15th, 2010
The potential risks related to the use of plasticisers, and specifically DEHP, in PVC-based medical devices has been under scrutiny for many years. While alternative materials have been developed and are quite successful in the marketplace, PVC remains attractive to the device industry precisely because it has been the focus ...
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
The Dow Chemical Co. has opened an updated customer application center and fully upgraded R&D Centre of Excellence in Buchs, Switzerland. The facilities serve to apply world-class science and technology on a local and regional basis to solve microbial control problems related to disease transmission, says Mark Henning, General Manager, Dow ...
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Studies conducted at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom provide further evidence of the antimicrobial benefits of copper contact surfaces in healthcare settings. According to the studies, the metal is a potentially useful control measure for the newly emergent New Delhi Metallo-1 beta-lactamase (NDM-1) group of enteric bacteria ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report that they have grown nanowires made of semiconductors, gallium nitride ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
The University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, in association with Renishaw plc will host ‘Inside Raman’ seminars on 22 and 23 September. Several distinguished speakers will pass on their experience and expertise at the events, which are aimed at promoting Raman spectroscopy to UK businesses and academia. There is no ...
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
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Researchers at Harvard University have developed a stretchy fabric made by linking together the proteins found in muscle tissue. Eventually, the material developed in the laboratory ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
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The current tendency in bone tissue engineering is developing materials that temporarily substitute for the bone while inducing its regeneration in such a way that this, temporary material, disappears ...
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Researchers have long envied spiders' ability to manufacture light-weight silk that is as strong and tough as steel or Kevlar. Finer than human hair, five times stronger by weight than steel and three times tougher than the man-made fibre Kevlar, spider dragline silk is also biocompatible and thus suitable for a ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
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From the Wire: Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules. Using electric fields, the tiny DNA strands are pushed through nanoscale-sized, atomically thin pores on a graphene platform ...
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
When Ritter GmbH needed to design a sterilisation and transport container tough enough to withstand the alkalinity and high temperatures of updated chemical cleaning and sterilisation requirements, the manufacturer of labware and medical products turned to Sabic Innovative Plastics. The materials supplier didn't miss a beat: Sabic developed a special grade of ...
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