New Polymer Delivers Added Protection to Small Medical Device Housings
Styrenics supplier Ineos Styrolution has introduced a new medical-grade material designed specifically for small medical housings and casings. The medical-grade material features chemical and UV resistance as well as impact strength.
How Can We Make Healthcare Plastics More Recyclable?
HPRC’s new packaging design guidelines shed light on preferred materials for improving recyclability.
Bioplastics in Medical Device Packaging: Yea or Nay?
Developing products that are sustainable is of utmost importance to many medical device companies. When it comes to packaging, companies as large as Medtronic are doing their part.
How can antimicrobials prevent healthcare-associated infections?
In the past century, modern medicine has broken countless barriers towards a safer, more effective healthcare protocol.
High-Performance Crosslinkable Thermoplastic Elastomers for Medical Applications
This article presents an overview of these TPE families and markets and where they are used. It reviews the advantages of the irradiation crosslinking process and the improvements imparted to plastics and elastomers, particularly to the COPA family of thermoplastic.
Bacteria-Based Bioink 3D Prints Bone-Like Composites
Researchers have created a new bacteria-based bioink that can print composite materials that have a similar strength and texture to bone, paving the way for innovations in biomedical and marine applications, they said.
Q&A: Material Selection for Thin-Walled Micro-Molded Medical Devices
The main benefits of thin-walled medical device components and implants are patient comfort, and the smaller a part can get, the smaller areas it can effectively monitor and treat.
Extrusion Process Enables Synthetic Material Growth
An interdisciplinary team of University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientists and engineers has developed a first-of-its-kind, plant-inspired extrusion process that enables synthetic material growth.
Telemedicine and Connectivity to Drive Material Innovation in the Near Future
The UCLA team built the barrier by depositing a thin layer of zwitterionic material to a device surface and then bonding it to the underlying substrate through UV light irradiation.
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.