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Raw Materials Used In Biomaterials Applications
From the resilient metals that underpin orthopedic implants to the versatile polymers powering drug delivery systems, biomaterials play an essential role in a wide range...
Using Polystyrene In Biomedical Applications
Polystyrene is one of the most versatile plastic resin materials and is found in many widely used products. This strong, solid plastic is useful in many manufacturing...
Using Polyvinyl Chloride In Biomedical Applications
Polyvinyl chloride is the third most produced plastic worldwide, just behind polyethylene and polypropylene, and it is the most widely used plastic in medical...
Using Polyamides In Biomedical Applications
Chemists and life scientists define polyamides as polymers whose repeating molecular units are chained together with amide links. These materials integrate hardness,...
Using Biopolymers In Biomedical Applications
Biopolymers have revolutionized lifesaving treatments and medical devices used in healthcare today. Scientists use these macromolecules to deliver drugs to patients,...
Using High Temperature Thermoplastics In Biomedical Applications
High temperature thermoplastics are melt-processable plastics with extreme heat resistance. They are also referred to as high performance or engineering polymers due to...
Sterilization Compatibility for Natural Polymers
Unlike synthetic polymers derived from petroleum, natural polymers occur in nature and can be extracted. These polymers are either formed by addition polymerization or...
Sterilization Compatibility for Synthetic Polymers
Synthetic polymers are essential in various medical applications as they are used to make a range of healthcare devices. They replace glass, metal, and other standard...
Using Elastomeric Polymers In Biomedical Applications
The word elastomer is derived from the term 'elastic polymer.' Elastomers are rubbery materials composed of polymers that can return to their original shape after being...
Using Acetals In Biomedical Applications
Acetals are easy to machine, general-purpose engineering plastics of outstanding dimensional stability. They are high molecular and high crystalline plastics produced by...
Using Fluoropolymers In Biomedical Applications
A fluoropolymer is a fluorocarbon-based polymer that has multiple carbon-fluorine bonds. Fluoropolymers boast of high resistance to bases, acids, and solvents. They also...
Using Polycarbonates In Biomedical Applications
Polycarbonates are a group of thermoplastics polymers with Bisphenol (A) parts and carbonate groups in their chemical structure. Polycarbonates are strong, rigid,...
7 Steps to Effectively Dual Source a Supply Chain for Medical Devices
Dual sourcing is considered a hassle by some traditional medical device manufacturers. After all, the procurement process is faster and more straightforward when you...
5 Things to Keep in Mind When Trying to Reverse Engineer Adhesive
The process of reverse engineering is demanding work: an analyst initially works with limited information about a product and uses that information to analyze it to...
Common Material Challenges in Miniaturizing In Vitro Diagnostics
The miniaturization of diagnostic tests comes with several unique challenges. The aim is to transform the fast turnaround time and specificity of Lab on a Chip (LOC)...
Is Aliphatic TPU Foam All it's Cracked Up To Be?
Polyurethane raw materials themselves have long seen use as dressings in the medical industry, but aliphatic thermoplastic polyurethane (aliphatic TPU) foams are gaining...
Anatomy of Films Used in Bioprocess Bags
In the early days of disposable medical devices, the biopharmaceutical industry manufactured single-use films made with "off-the-shelf" materials borrowed from other...
What's New With Nonwovens in the Medical Industry?
The utilization of nonwoven fabrics in the medical field has outpaced woven materials in recent years. Even when traced back to their rapid adoption during WWII,...
Applications of Flexible Materials in Healthcare
Flexible materials combined with emerging technologies are at the forefront of healthcare innovations. Guiding recent advances are cost concerns, mass-production, and...
New Flexible Material Technology Creates E-Skin for Prosthetics
More than two million Americans are currently living with a lost limb. The use of artificial limbs has been around for millennia, dating back to ancient Egyptians....
Technical Textiles Gaining Ground in 2018
According to a report from Textile World, 2018 State of the U.S. Technical Textiles Industry, the outlook for technical textiles is healthy as the U.S. enters the ninth...
Electrospun Nanofibers Take Technical Textiles to a New Level
"Smart" devices, appliances, glasses, watches, clothing, and numerous other items have flooded the market in recent years. The global market for the smart clothing...
Biosensors Benefiting from Newly Created Protein Polymer Films
The biosensor market is seeing tremendous growth, partly due to the aging population and the increasing number of people with diabetes and other chronic diseases that...
Advances in Exoskeletal Materials
Developments in prostheses and robot technology have advanced rapidly, leading to the manufacture of devices known as 'exoskeletons.' These rigid devices, usually...
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...
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...
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...
Flexible Printed Circuit Boards in Medical Device and Life Sciences
Flexible circuitry has been around for 115 years and its versatility across industries is unparalleled. Its uses and applications seem almost limitless. In fact, the...
Functionalizing Foams Used in Medical Applications
Many factors drive the advancements in wound care and the use of flexible materials in the medical field. Three major sectors are the aging population, increased...
Choosing the Best Medical Tape - Silicone Vs. Acrylic
Wound care presents many challenges to the medical professional. From the sheer variety of wound types to the differences among patients, a critical factor in all...
Technical Paper Helping to Revolutionize the Blood Draw Process
Drawbridge Health has developed a new way to draw blood. The company founded by GE Ventures is in the final testing phases of an innovative blood collection device that...
Biomedical Applications for Foil in Medical Devices & Wearables
Foil can be used to hold, protect, decorate, or dispense a wide range of materials and applications. Its unique properties facilitate its use for storage, distribution,...
Sustainable Barriers in the Medical Industry
With the medical and pharmaceutical industries facing compounded challenges when it comes to corporate social responsibility, the transition to environmentally...
Medical Technologies Emerging from the Technical Textiles Industry
Technical textiles encompass a vast array of textiles manufactured for strictly nominal purposes where utility is the primary principle. Technical textiles are...
Graphene Dialysis Membranes
One application's material defect is another's path to functionality. This is true of graphene, when taken beyond the realm of electronics and applied within the field...
Types of Biomaterials and Their Applications: Next-Generation Textile
Biomedical Engineers at the University of New South Wales have successfully created the prototype for a new functional textile based on the interwoven complexity of...
PVC Films Used in Medical Device Applications
Anyone who lives in a part of the world that has access to running water, electricity or sanitation services, has enjoyed some of the benefits of polyvinyl chloride film...
Demand for Cell Foam Applications Increasing with Medical Innovations
Analysts predict that the worldwide demand for medical foam will reach $31 billion by the year 2025. While many industries have used foams for years the medical industry...
Cooling Technical Textile Developed by Stanford Engineers
Technical textiles are being constantly developed to innovate the way medicine is practiced and to reshape patient experience. However, textiles are something that the...
The Impact of Flexible Materials Sourcing on Supply Chain Management
Getting from raw material to a final product is a multifaceted process that is prone to errors, inefficiencies, and delays. In the advanced flexible materials, the...
Thoughts From a Material Sourcing Millennial
It’s Monday morning and I have 5 material sourcing projects laying on my desk that I need to work through before my 10 AM sales call where I need to deliver updates to...
5 Tests Critical to the End Use Applications of Nonwovens
Nonwovens testing of physical and mechanical properties are essential to determining their end-use applications. For example, if a nonwoven has high absorptive capacity,...
3 Keys to Strong Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management plays a key role in the success of any business. Building a strong relationship with your suppliers within your supply chain will allow you to...
Working with Flexible Foam in Medical Device Manufacturing
Flexible foam is readily used in medical device manufacturing ranging from simple shapes of single layer foam to more complicated adhesive bordered foam or island placed...
Don’t Let Your Supplier Write Your Material Specification
This seems obvious, doesn’t it? After all, it's your specification so why would you let another interested party define something so critical to you and your...
Understanding Composite Materials: Tapes
At first thought tapes sound like a simple concept; a long, narrow piece of material that is sticky on one side and used to hold things together. However, in the world...
How to Successfully Search Online for Advanced Flexible Materials
The process of online search and discovery has become a daily part of our lives. The days of walking blindly into a shop, picking through some things, and making a...
Effectively Dual Source a Supply Chain for Advanced Flexible Materials
In advanced flexible materials markets dual sourcing is frequently discussed and commonly required, but how well it is executed is often times a different story. Most...
5 Simple Rules to Source Advanced Flexible Materials More Effectively
Material sourcing is a challenging task. It is both time consuming and difficult to identify high quality vendors of advanced flexible materials - such as flexible foam,...
Understanding Composite Materials: Classifications
Composites can be a tricky material to classify and standardize because by their nature they are not very standard at all. This can be a challenge for sourcing teams,...
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