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R&D: Medical
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R&D: Materials
Researchers hope to make everything from protective clothing to medical implants stronger and more corrosion resistant thanks to a newly developed hyper glue formula. The team of...
Features: Packaging & Sterilization
The European Commission defines personalized medicine as, “a medical approach tailored to the patient or a group of patients for prevention, prediction and treatment . . ....
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Depositing small, repeatable volumes of fluid in assembly applications spans a diverse range of industries. The ability to deposit precise amounts of material is an...
Briefs: Materials
By using an electrochemical etching process on a common stainless-steel alloy, researchers have created a nanotextured surface that kills bacteria while not harming...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Every day the world’s leading medical device companies rely upon laser direct structuring (LDS) to meet their most demanding design and performance requirements. Millions of electronic...
Technology Leaders: Packaging & Sterilization
The market for medical electronics is huge and growing. The astounding capabilities of digital technology and broadband connectivity are “a perfect storm,” enabling doctors...
Briefs: Medical
Combining a new hydrogel material with a protein that boosts blood vessel growth could improve the success rate for transplanting insulin-producing islet cells into persons with...
Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The structures of most medical devices are far too complex to mold as a single piece. Therefore, it is necessary to assemble their components into a finished product. While...
Technology Leaders: Medical
Multipurpose functionality has become an expectation in the modern lifestyle. A washing machine is no longer just a washing machine but rather a computerized appliance that...
Features: Medical
The demand for thermal management materials and adhesives is driven by the unwanted and potentially harmful heat generated by ever-shrinking electronic...
Features: Medical
Ultrasonic welding of thermoplastics has been widely used by the medical industry to assemble plastic parts and components in just seconds without additional...
Technology Leaders: Design
Electronic human machine interface (HMI) technology goes back as far as the 1940s with the punch card batch interfaces from IBM. Today, when you think of user interfaces, you may...
R&D: Medical
Liquid-Metal Particles Support Heat-Free Soldering
Iowa State engineers have developed micro-sized liquid-metal particles for heat-free soldering and metal processing applications.
Features: Medical
The medical industry continues to develop new devices that are smaller in size and more sophisticated in functionality. From in vitro diagnostics and...
Features: Medical
In recent decades, plastics have made healthcare simpler, less difficult, and make new techniques and prostheses possible. Therefore, it is more...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Northeastern University’s Hanchen Huang, a professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and two of his PhD students say they have come up with a better way of...
Features: Medical
Manufacturers of medical devices must seek every way possible to eliminate failures of those devices. Many major failures result from a weakness in the solder joint that...
Briefs: Medical
A team of engineers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a novel self-healing gel that,...
Features: Medical
From securing the simplest bandage to adhering components of the most complex diagnostic devices, pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs) have long had a crucial...
R&D: Medical
Kirigami-Inspired Method Builds 'Pop-Up' 3D Structures
A new assembly method based on an ancient Japanese paper art instantly transforms 2D structures into complex 3D shapes. The results, reported by a Northwestern University and University of Illinois research team, could be useful in tissue engineering and microelectromechanical systems.
Features: Medical
Most orthopedic implant manufacturers still rely heavily on traditional coatings for their implants, such as sintered bead and plasma-sprayed metallic and hydroxyapatite (HA) coatings. These...
Features: Medical
In medical product design, proper, robust functionality is paramount. The product simply has to work. In this market, is aesthetic design of any importance? And if so, how can designers...
R&D: Medical
Researchers 'Draw' Sensors to Measure Glucose
A new tool developed by nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego, allows users, including physicians and patients, to easily build their own sensors.
R&D: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Soldering Technique Makes Cheap Semiconductors
A University of Chicago research team has created a new solder for semiconductors. After being heated to several hundred degrees Celsius, the compounds of cadmium, lead, and bismuth can be applied as a liquid or paste to join two pieces of a semiconductor.
R&D: Robotics, Automation & Control
Nanoscale Surface Repels Bacteria
A new type of bacteria-repelling nanoscale surface holds promise for medical applications.
Features: Electronics & Computers
Board cleaning is perhaps one of the most overlooked aspects of printed circuit board (PCB) assembly. But savvy medical electronics original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have a keen sense...
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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.
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Scan-Based and Project Design for Medical
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Precision, Control and Repeatability: Harnessing the Power of UV...
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Here's an Idea: Medtech’s New Normal
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Here's an Idea: A Plant-Based Gel That Saves Lives
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Adaptable Healthcare Solutions Designed for Safety and Security
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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.