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We are
medical device, diagnostic, bioengineering and pharmaceutical consultants
with leading expertise in the area of coatings, lubricants, hydrogels,
surfactants, adhesives, binders, wetting agents, detergents, gels and
colloids since 1980. We have applied our adept knowledge of
engineering principles, blood coagulation, biocompatibility and
anti-thrombogenicity as well as available industrial materials and
technologies to various currently marketed medical devices and
pharmaceuticals.
We know of the most
effective methodologies for developing a biocompatible surface. These
methods include simple casting and adhesion, formation of
interpenetrating networks, vapor coating, chemical and radiation
grafting. We have developed and executed protocols for the functional
evaluation and stability of several new products both in laboratory and
clinical environments.
These unique
modifying agents are utilized for effective cleaning, conditioning and
surface altering both the physical and/or chemical properties of a material.
Such a surface modification could be temporary or of extended time
period, as desired. Coating film thickness, uniformity, wettability,
rehydration, adhesive strength are some of the critical variables to be
controlled. Their enormous versatility make these chemicals highly
desirable in many industrial applications.
We have proprietary
expertise for altering the undesirable, existing surface properties of a
material to one that can perform desirable custom or tailor-made product
functions. Such materials include hydrogels, coatings, lubricants,
surfactants and other colloids. Examples include: Making a surface more
biocompatible and lubricious while extending its service life;
significantly reducing the frictional forces of a piston design; enabling
the controlled deposition of an expensive powder on a surface and its
subsequent controlled dissolution into an aqueous media; assisting in the
proper wetting and complete dispersion of a powder with an uncontrolled
particle size distribution into a highly viscous gel material; enhancing
in the decontamination and cleaning of a heavily soiled but expensive
material; reducing significantly the penetration frictional forces of
hypodermic and suture needles; improving significantly the liquid flow
rate through a membrane; controlling the delivery and diffusion of a drug
through a membrane system.
We know of the most
effective methodologies for developing a biocompatible surface. These
methods include simple casting and adhesion, formation of interpenetrating
networks, vapor coating, chemical and radiation grafting. We have
developed and executed protocols for the functional evaluation and
stability of several new products both in laboratory and clinical
environments.
We have expertise
in the development and manufacturing implementation of technologies
capable of producing surfaces with tailor-made physical and chemical
properties.
These technologies
include plasma, chemical and heat treatments, decontamination, cleaning,
passivation, etching, coating, lubrication, UV curing, various modes of
sterilization and mechanical abrasion.
We have produced
materials whose surfaces exhibit desirable slippery, adhesive, bonding,
dissolving, cutting, wettable, biocompatible, biocoagulatible,
anti-thrombogenic, bacteriostatic and infection resistant properties by
utilizing the above technologies.
We have been able
to achieve such results by treating various plastic, metallic, glass,
woven and non-woven fabric surfaces with such materials as lubricants, surfactants
or detergents, solvents, fluoropolymers and various powders. We
also have expertise in safe medical device, pharmaceutical and hospital
waste handling, transport and disposal technologies.
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