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Applications: Materials
Selecting an adhesive is often a difficult task because it involves give and take between the end-use and manufacturing requirements. When it comes to bonding applications in the...
Features: Medical
Utilized in a wide variety of adhesion applications — from urinary catheters to cardiac pacemakers — one-part condensation-cure adhesives have traditionally...
Briefs: Materials
An aging population and accompanying demand for wound dressing and stoma care technologies that provide better treatment than conventional techniques have prompted the medical adhesives industry to produce a new...
Features: Medical
The increasing popularity of smart phones and interactive netbooks are influencing other industries to incorporate a touch interface in their devices. Products...
Features: Materials
The recognized benefits of the transdermal patch as a viable drug delivery system are driving the development of new forms of transdermal drug delivery systems (TDDS). These products...
Mission Accomplished: Materials
Langley Research Center’s Soluble Imide (LaRC-SI) was discovered by accident. While researching resins and adhesives for advanced composites for high-speed aircraft, Robert Bryant, a...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Photochemical Tissue Bonding for Military Medical Applications
Joining severed vessels is a recurring problem in trauma and surgery. The basic technology of joining vessels using sutures has been available for centuries, but remains a slow and tedious process. A complete system for micro-anastomosis of vessels was developed that involves a laser...
Briefs: Materials
This technology provides a methodology and products that are formed from fibrous substrates or film-like surfaces by uniform impregnation with a particulate that is subsequently firmly attached. The...
Features: Medical
For over 50 years, silicones have been used extensively in the design and manufacture of medical devices intended for short- and long-term human implantation. Silicone’s...
Briefs: Medical
The Magnetic Plungerless Injection System (MPIS) was invented to enhance the therapeutic value and market availability of parenterally delivered pharmaceuticals and vaccines. The MPIS is a mechanical...
Briefs: Medical
A novel closure technology now makes it possible to consistently squeeze an exact dose of semi-solids from a tube by means of a 180-degree rotating closure. It has potential uses in...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
Ultrathin Nanotech Promises to Help Tackle Antibiotic Resistance
Quiz: Medical
Medical Technology on the PGA Tour
INSIDER: Medical
Breaking Barriers in Drug Delivery with Better Lipid Nanoparticles
Features: Materials
Hydrogels as a Drug-Delivery Medium
Features: Medical
Overcoming Blockers to Digitizing Manufacturing Operations
INSIDER: Medical
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.
Webcasts
Webinars: Medical
Scan-Based and Project Design for Medical
Upcoming Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Precision, Control and Repeatability: Harnessing the Power of UV...
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Here's an Idea: Medtech’s New Normal
Podcasts: Materials
Here's an Idea: A Plant-Based Gel That Saves Lives
Webinars: Medical
Adaptable Healthcare Solutions Designed for Safety and Security
Podcasts: Medical
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.