Plastics Joining—Do You Know Your Options?

Take a process-neutral approach to solving plastics joining problems.

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Smooth or Textured: A Lesson in Biocompatibility

Tissue response to an implanted device can be influenced by many factors.

Purified Fat Could Be an Alternative to Breast Implants

Solana Beach, CA-based Puregraft has developed a technology that would use a person’s own fat for breast augmentation or restructuring.

Smooth or Textured: A Lesson in Biocompatibility

Tissue response to an implanted device can be influenced by many factors.

It’s Time for New Medtech Materials—Could Academia Help?

A specialist in implantable structures offers ideas on how to drive new materials development.

New Thinking Informs Soft-Material 3D Printing

As 3D printing evolves, researchers have gone beyond mere fabrication processes to developing techniques for optimizing how particular materials can be printed. To that end, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering have developed a new approach to optimizing the 3D printing of soft materials. This approach combines expert judgment with an algorithm designed to search parameter combinations relevant for 3D printing, they said.

Adhesives: Enabling the Future of Wearable Medical Devices

Adhesives must continue to push the boundaries of what’s expected and thought to be possible to keep momentum in the wearable medical device market and to provide

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ePTFE for the Cardiovascular Device Industry

For over 35 years, expanded PolyTetraFluoroEthylene (ePTFE) has been a mainstay of the cardiovascular device industry.
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New Labeling Solutions Emerge for UDI

UPM Raflatac launches new sterilizable label materials to support UDI.

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Photo Of The Day: A Stretchy Circuit

Researchers in China have made a new hybrid conductive material—part elastic polymer, part liquid metal—that can be bent and stretched at will. Circuits made with this material can take most two-dimensional shapes and are also non-toxic, according to Cell Press.