Verification of Lubricious Coatings on Medical Devices
I have hinted much on this blog about ways to go about verifying hydrophilic coatings on medical devices. When I speak of...
Five Critical Questions to Ask About Pinch Testing Data
Pinch testing data can be used to make or break a lubricious hydrophilic coating. It can also be used to lie. When you see any graph...
Hydrophilic Coatings Market Misinformation - Part 2
In a previous post I discussed why some of the estimates that the professional market research organizations make on the size of the...
Hydrophilic Coatings Market Misinformation
I have noticed several firms trying to estimate the size of the hydrophilic coatings market, which is a subset of the medical coatings...
Dental and Orthopedic Applications for Hydrophilic Coatings
I am not going to say this is a hopeless cause, because there could always be that device out there that could benefit from a slippery...
Implantable Hydrophilic Coatings
All hydrophilic coatings have some sort of bioerosion, degradation, and/or resorption rates in vivo. For most coatings of this nature,...
Leachables vs. Extractables: Hydrophilic Coating Considerations
The Qmed blog has an insightful article on differentiating between leachables and extractables in medical devices. Though the article...
Lubricious Coatings: Pinch Test Primer
Lubricious coatings for medical devices come from various companies, chemistries, and calibres. Differentiating the "men from the boys"...
Medical Device Coating Processes
Coatings exist in multiple industries, aside from medical device coatings. In fact, there is an index of all kinds of coating methods on...
A Lubricious Coating That Has Dry Lubricity
Here is another question that comes up sometimes: Do you have a coating that is lubricious when dry? More often than not, these...
