Parylene for use in Bio-Medical implantable devices

Posted by Sean Horn on Tue, Jun 12, 2012

Whenever implantable devices come into contact with the human body, long term protection against body fluids, enzymes, proteins, and lipids is vital.  Bio-medical surfaces typically require coating to protect from moisture, chemicals, and other potentially harmful substances. A downfall for wet chemistry, liquid coatings such as silicones, acrylics, epoxy, or urethanes is that they do […]

Parylene-Enabled Flexible Prosthetic Devices: A Review

Posted by Sean Horn on Fri, May 25, 2012

The focus of this paper was the flexible electrode and flexible coil components in which parylene C is used not simply as a coating, but as the structural material as well.  Parylene C was chosen as the structural material because parylene is pinhole-free, uniformly conforming, its low water permeability, its USP Class VI biocompatibility, and […]