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What Makes a Material Medical Grade?
Materials used in the healthcare and medical setting must often carry the title "medical grade." But what defines a material as "medical grade"? Biocompatibility refers...
ASTM Standards and Testing of Flexible Materials Used in Healthcare
The ASTM (formerly the American Society for Testing Materials, currently ASTM International) is an organization that develops and publishes consensus technical standards...
Outlook for Wearables and Smart Textiles
Advances in smart electronics have already produced a number of devices that are currently on the market. Textile manufacturers brought sensor-based smart wearables to...
Applications of Auxetic Materials in Life Sciences
Auxetic materials are characterized by becoming thicker perpendicular to the applied force when stretched. This is caused by the way their particular internal structure...
5 Types of Flexible Composites Transforming Your Healthcare
Simply put, a composite is a material made from two or more materials that have different properties. When combined together, the chemical and physical properties of the...
Can Nanotechnology Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria?
Over the last hundred years, antibiotics have been central to the extraordinary rate of improvement in medical technology. From swiftly curing basic infections to...
Technical Textiles in Bioprocessing
As in most industries, consumer demand is driving the rapid pace of growth in this field. Also contributing to the expansion in the medical arena is the availability of...
Recent Innovations on Biodegradable Materials & Transient Electronics
Transient electronics, also known as biodegradable electronics, is an emerging technology being explored across many fields and for various applications. When used in...
Innovative Thin Films for Drug Delivery
Considerations for developing a new drug delivery platform include ease of use (self-administration, convenient to swallow), route of administration (oral, transdermal,...
Recent Advances in Bioink Design for 3D Bioprinting
Despite recent advances in tissue engineering, there remains a lack of tissues and organs for transplantation and a shortage of tissue models for drug discovery and...