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Features: Medical
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Medical devices are an innovative, essential, and rapidly evolving component of healthcare technology and delivery. This...
Briefs: Medical
A KAIST research team has developed flexible vertical micro LEDs (f-VLEDs) using anisotropic conductive film (ACF)-based transfer and interconnection technology. The team, led by Professor...
R&D: Medical
Researchers often have to compromise between strength and the ability to self-repair when developing coating materials. Now one team has developed a smart coating that is as hard as tooth enamel on...
R&D: Medical
Scientists have built and tested a new biomaterial-based delivery system — known as a hydrogel — that will encase a desired cargo and dissolve to release its freight...
R&D: Medical
Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for making piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) by connecting a sample of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) piezoelectric thin...
R&D: Medical
A team of researchers is gaining new insight into the smart materials used in ultrasound technology, finding striking similarities with the behavior of water. They investigated a behavior...
R&D: Medical
A team of researchers repaired a hole in a mouse’s skull by regrowing “quality bone,” a breakthrough that could drastically improve the care of people who suffer severe trauma to the skull or face. The...
R&D: Medical
Researchers 'Stretch' Limits of Elastomers
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design's Digital Manufacturing and Design Centre have developed UV-curable elastomers that can be stretched by up to 1100%. The 3D-printing process supports the fabrication of soft actuators and robots, flexible electronics, and acoustic...
R&D: Medical
In partnership with General Motors, researchers from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, have revealed that honeycomb “cellular” materials support a range of new...
Briefs: Materials
A multi-institutional research team has...
R&D: Medical
Body Heat Triggers Shape-Changing Polymer
University of Rochester researchers created a material that undergoes a shape change when triggered by body heat alone. The shape-memory polymer can be programmed to retain a temporary form and then revert back to its original structure.
R&D: Medical
An elastic water-based bandage created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin. The stretchy hydrogel can be...
R&D: Medical
Metamaterial Slows Light
Researchers at The University of Alabama created a material that manipulates and reduces the speed of light in a new, more effective way. The resulting "slow light" will lead to the development of optical buffers and delay lines used in next-generation sensors.
Global Innovations: Materials
Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
The research project PUMA (Pressure Ulcer Measurement and Actuation), founded by the European Commission,...
R&D: Medical
Cyborgs that combine machine systems with living organisms to have extraordinary abilities are already a reality say researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). This is especially true with medical...
R&D: Materials
Ceramics are brittle and tend to crack under stress. But, researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, along with colleagues in Singapore, say that they have found a way around that...
R&D: Medical
A slow-motion method of controlling the synthesis of polymers, inspired by trees and Celtic Knot designs, could open up new possibilities in areas including medical devices, drug delivery,...
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INSIDER: Medical
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Features: Medical
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Ask the Expert
Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.
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Inside Story
Rapid Precision Prototyping Program Speeds Medtech Product Development
Rapid prototyping technologies play an important role in supporting new product development (NPD) by companies that are working to bring novel and innovative products to market. But in advanced industries where products often make use of multiple technologies, and where meeting a part’s exacting tolerances is essential, speed without precision is rarely enough. In such advanced manufacturing—including the medical device and surgical robotics industries — the ability to produce high-precision prototypes early in the development cycle can be critical for meeting design expectations and bringing finished products to market efficiently.