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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2022.07.27
Multi-Layer Extrusion Processes Tackle Tubing Challenges
Minimally invasive procedures are driving innovation…….
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