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New ATP Test for the Industrial Microbiology

Merck has developed a new ATP Test, HY-LiTE® Plus for monitoring of microbiological activity in metal working fluids, paints, coatings and waste water treatment more

New particle properties - the Hybridizer

The HYBRIDIZATION System improves particle features and produces new, innovative material combinations from commercially available micrometer- and more

A core business of Bohle is the production of film coaters

The L.B. Bohle Maschinen + Verfahren GmbH is a German engineering company for the pharmaceutical solid dose production more

News Coatings

• Silicone Breast Implants with Spider Silk-Based Coating Show Reduced Side-Effects in Preclinical Studies

  AMSilk is developing a novel spider silk-based coating, called BioShield-S1, for silicone breast implants designed to reduce commonly known side effects that are initiated when the immune system reacts to the implants. Preclinical tests conducted jointly with the University of Bayreuth, Germany and more

• BASF completes acquisition of Becker Underwood

  BASF has completed the acquisition of Becker Underwood from Norwest Equity Partners, a U.S.-based private equity investment company, for a purchase price of US$1.02 billion (€785 million). With the acquisition, BASF is now a leading global provider of technologies for biological seed treatment as we more

• Selenium suppresses staph on implant material
  

  Selenium is an inexpensive element that naturally belongs in the body. It is also known to combat bacteria. Still, it had not been tried as an antibiotic coating on a medical device material. In a new study, Brown University engineers report that when they used selenium nanoparticles to coat polycar more

White papers Coatings

• Good Reasons to Use ATR Libraries
  

  Transmission spectroscopy was the only method in general use until the early 1960s. The first applications of attenuated total reflection (ATR) or internal reflection spectroscopy were reported independently by Fahrenfort and Harrick. Especially macromolecular materials (rubbers, fibers, fabrics, coatings, laminates etc), which often failed to yield useful transmittance spectra, became accessible for infrared spectroscopic investigations by the ATR technique. Meanwhile, the ATR technique has been proven to be an extremely useful technique for material analysis and has become more widely used for all but gaseous samples. more

• UV/Vis/NIR Spectrometry for the Film Thickness Determination of Transparent Films and Layers
  

  Within nearly all branches of industry we find products, which are coated with thin transparent layers to improve the surface features: Window sheet glasses obtain changes in reflection and absorption behavior, ceramics are treated with coatings to lower water adhesion, coatings on metals create corrosion resistance or better sliding factors. Transparent coatings play also a major role in the semiconductor business. One of the important features to be determined and controlled is the thickness of the layers to balance performance and material input during development and production more

Publications Coatings

• Corrosion Protection and Improved Cytocompatibility of Biodegradable Polymeric Layer-by-Layer Coatings on AZ31 Magnesium Alloys

  Publication date: Available online 16 May 2013 Source:Acta Biomaterialia Author(s): Nicole Ostrowski , Boeun Lee , Nathan Enick , Benjamin Carlson , Sangeetha Kunjukunju , Abhijit Roy , Prashant N. Kumta Composite coatings of electrostatically assembled layer-by-layer anionic and cation more

• Sustained ibuprofen release using composite poly(lactic‐co‐glycolic acid)/titanium dioxide nanotubes from Ti implant surface

  Abstract Developing coatings on implant surface as drug carriers can reduce organ toxicity and effectively deliver drug locally to the target compared with the oral approach. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanotube has great potential for this application for widely used Ti implants because of its high more

• Application of a rotating bioreactor consisting of low‐cost and ready‐to‐use medical disposables for in vitro evaluation of the endothelialization efficiency of small‐caliber v ...

  Abstract The incomplete endothelialization of especially small‐caliber vascular prostheses after implantation in patients is a major disadvantage in cardiovascular interventions. The lack of an endothelium leads to the occurrence of thrombosis at the luminal surface of artificial vascular prosth more

Market studies Coatings

• Biosignal Limited (BOSDA) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

  Biosignal Limited (Biosignal) is a publicly held Australia-based biotechnology company. The company primarily focused on research and development activities. The company started research on unique anti-biofilm technology that is developed at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Later, with a te more

• Covalon Technologies Ltd. (COV) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

  Covalon Technologies, Ltd. (Covalon) is a publicly held Canada-based advanced medical products company. The company is principally engaged in the development and commercialization of therapeutic biomaterials for wound care and surgical applications and coatings. Its proprietary technologies include more

• Kane Biotech Inc. (KNE) - Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

  Kane Biotech Inc. (Kane Biotech) is a developmental stage biotechnology company. It is engaged in the research and development of products that prevent and disperse bacterial biofilms. The products offered by the company are focused on the genetic mechanisms of biofilm formation, and originally b more

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