Should You Start A Hydrophilic Coatings Company?
Let’s say you’ve been keeping track of the growing market for neurovascular and cardiovascular products out there, and let’s also say...
Why You Won't Get Your Coated Medical Device to Market in 6 Months
If anyone has ever been starry-eyed, it's me. "I am going to get my PhD in only three years!" "I will have all this extra money with...
Coating Medical Devices is a Two-way Street
When it comes to coatings for customers, the focus is on the customer, and rightly so. Naturally, for such a deal to occur the customer...
Lubricious Coating Biocompatibility - Verification
The first thing you need to do when looking into biocompatibility for a medical device, coated or not, is think about your application...
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,...
