Researchers in India and Europe Collaborate on Prosthetic Heart Valve Project

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Project HeartSEN—Surface Engineered Coatings on Mechanical Heart Valves: Diagnostics of Thrombosis—brings together scientists from INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials and the Pediatric Cardiology of Saarland University Hospital, both of which are located in Germany; the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India; and Kocaeli University in Turkey.

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New Ultrasonic Nozzle Uses Less Material to Coat Stents

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

A 180-kHz ultrasonic nozzle developed by Sono-Tek Corp. enables medtech manufacturers to use less material to coat stents than is possible with previous generations. The nozzle produces a median drop size of 13 µm (with water) and is compatible with the company’s MediCoat DES 1000 and MediCoat II anti-restinosis stent coating systems. The ...

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