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White Papers: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Innovation Without Compromise: Confluent Medical Changes the Game in Polyimide Tubing Manufacturing
With over 175 years of combined experience in medical device manufacturing, Confluent Medical combines its unrivaled materials science expertise...

White Papers: Materials
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Addressing the Challenges of Film-Cast PTFE Liners
Film-cast PTFE liners have long presented issues such as pinholes, imperfections, and reliability concerns. A new approach aims to mitigate these problems through a proprietary manufacturing...

INSIDER: Motion Control
Flaps perform essential jobs. From pumping hearts to revving engines, flaps help fluid flow in one direction. Without them, keeping liquids going in the right direction...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
An inspection design method and procedure by which mobile robots can inspect large pipe structures has been demonstrated with the successful inspection of multiple...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
MIT engineers have developed a robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle, which mimics the beating and blood-pumping action of live hearts.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See what's new on the market, including a pressure transmitter, a new pressure instrument, new confocal controller, and more.
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Briefs: Design
The tool straightens thin, malleable 4-mm metal tubes like those used for fuel, pneumatic, or hydraulic pressurized lines.
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INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Combustion engines, propellors, and hydraulic pumps are examples of fluidic devices — instruments that utilize fluids to perform certain functions, such as generating power or...
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Special Reports: Medical
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - February 2022
How virtual, cloud-based technologies are powering the next industrial revolution...transforming plastic parts into high-value products...designing optics for medical 3D printing. Read these...

Special Reports: Medical
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - November 2021
In this new report from the editors of Medical Design Briefs and Tech Briefs magazines, discover how the latest advances in 3D printing, machining, molding and more are changing the way...

Briefs: Medical
The stent monitors even subtle changes in the flow of blood through the artery.
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Briefs: Tubing & Extrusion
Medical instruments equipped with a soft electronics system improve diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in minimally invasive surgeries.
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Q&A: Electronics & Computers
A new class of medical instruments uses flexible electronics to improve patient outcomes in minimally invasive surgeries.
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Briefs: Materials
The material consists solely of components that have already been shown to work well in the body.
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Briefs: Medical
The Air Force has developed improved devices for hemostatic management of patients with life-threatening blood loss from an arterial wound or surgery. Current aortic occlusion devices successfully...
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Extremity vascular injury results in bleeding and lack of blood flow beyond the site of vessel disruption (ischemia). Priorities when this occurs include hemorrhage control, management of life-threatening injuries, and...
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Techs for License: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Nozzle Produces Ultrafine Droplets
Energy-saving nozzles offer droplet sizes down to 25 microns, at operating pressures as low as 100 psi. Nozzle passages, including metering slots, spin chambers, and exit orifices, are designed to minimize pressure drop, resulting in conservation of pump energy up to the exit orifice.
Briefs: Materials
An additional class of end-cap compounds that increase the thermo-oxidative stability of polyimides of the polymerization of monomeric reactants (PMR) type has been invented. The prior...
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Briefs: Materials
Latently reactive end caps have been investigated as improved means to increase the thermo-oxidative stability of polyimides of the polymerization of monomeric reactants (PMR) type,...
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