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Dear all, I am doing a market study for a high performance coating and I seek your expert advice. The technology allows the deposition of a very thin coating (between 200nm and 1,5 micron) on glass, stainless or ceramic. It brings anti-sticking, anti-corrosion, and hydrophobic properties to the surface. It can be deposited on and inside complex parts. How often this type of problems are found in medical devices? Are they critical? If they are, how are they generally solved? I’m really interested by your feedback and advice on this topic. Many thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Tanguy Van Regemorter Marked as spam
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Michael Tar
Is it durable? If not, or if it can only coat those three materials you’ll have limited applications in medicine. If it is durable and applicable to any material, the first category of device I would look at is anything permanently implanted that’s contacting circulating blood, such as pacing leads, heart valves, stents, stent grafts, etc. You would need to prove that the coating survives device placement via catheter, and that it prevents clots and stenosis without affecting performance (nobody wants a TAVR or stent that doesn’t stay put). Urinary catheters would be another good idea, in order to reduce biofilms, but with greater price sensitivity. IMHO your greater challenge is commercial not technical. Marked as spam
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Tanguy Van Regemorter
Many thanks Michael for your valuable input. Yes, it is durable but it need high temperature to be desposited, which exclude plastic materials. The applications are indeed rather limited to some specific cases. I don’t know the possibility to apply it to implanted devices or catheters. I was thinking about protein adherence issues on external use devices which need to be cleaned to avoid cross-contaminations Marked as spam
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