Materials
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2023.01.16
Making Fast & Easy Connections with Swelling Fluids
Many medical devices employ new and more sophisticated components in their designs. This includes the tubing and hoses used in venous access devices, drainage catheters, dialysis machines, infusion pumps, enteral feeding devices, and others that transfer fluid, medications, gases, guide wires, cameras, or other materials.
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2023.01.09
Tough Gel Adhesives for Wound Healing
The hydrogel itself is a hybrid of two different types of polymers: a seaweed extract called alginate that is used to thicken food, and polyacrylamide, which is the main material in soft contact lenses.
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2022.12.05
Material Can Shape-Shift with Stability Across Forms
A flexible, lightweight, and easy-to-fabricate structure combines materials in a unique way to shape-shift……
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2022.11.25
Meeting Evolving Material Selection Criteria for Medical Enclosures
Material choices will vary depending on the manufacturing process and device characteristics and life expectancy……
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2022.11.21
Tubing Coated with Light-Powered Catalysts Aids Drug Manufacturing
The catalysts could act on chemicals, helping to synthesize drugs……
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2022.11.03
Novel Patching Material for Bone Defects
Scientists have discovered a new type of bone repairing material that could be used to more precisely fix bone defects……
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2022.10.31
Flatworm-Inspired Medical Adhesives Stop Blood Loss
Medical Design Briefs INSIDER……
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2022.10.28
Ceramic material could improve MRIs by enabling faster times, better images
A helmet with ceramic materials inside that enhances an MRI signal would enable shorter scan times and more detailed images of the brain……
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2022.10.14
Ultrathin Implantable Material Could Treat Spinal Cord Injury, Parkinson’s
Flexible implanted electronics are a step closer toward clinical applications thanks to a recent breakthrough technology that uses in-house silicon carbide technology as a new platform for long-term electronic biotissue interfaces……
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2022.08.05
The advantages of laser-cut tube (LCT) catheters
Here’s how laser-cut tube (LCT) catheters compare to traditional catheters: the design process, functional advantages, test methods and cost comparisons……
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