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Implantable Devices and Parylene

Posted by Sean Horn on Fri, Dec 18, 2015 @ 08:40 AM

Implantable Medical Devices and the Uses of Parylene

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Best Implantable Device Coating

Posted by Sean Horn on Fri, May 01, 2015 @ 08:41 AM

Implantable devices place a special set of requirements and challenges on their coatings. The moisture and broad mixture of chemicals that are found inside of the body are challenging in and of themselves. However, the body also has needs from the coatings that are placed within it. They need to be non-irritating and inert enough to be harmless. For most applications, the best choice is USP Class VI compliant parylene coatings.

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What can be parylene coated?

Posted by Sean Horn on Tue, Jun 26, 2012 @ 01:08 PM

A question we often get is “Can Xbe parylene coated?”  We are often amazed at the shear number of items that can be and are coated with parylene.  A quick look at the different items that we have parylene coated over the years reveals that more often than not, parylene coating is a value add to these and many more products:
  • Printed circuit boards
  • MEMs
  • LEDs
  • Catheters
  • Stents
  • Magnets
  • Paper
  • Needles
  • Sensors
  • Ferrite Cores
  • Metallic Blocks
  • Optical lenses
  • Implantable devices
  • Valves
  • O-rings
  • Tubing
  • Silicon Wafers
  • Keypads
  • Stoppers
  • Seals
  • Mandrels
  • Molds
  • Motor Assemblies
  • Power Supplies
  • Backplanes
  • Photoelectric Cells
  • Forceps
  • Test tubes
  • Probes
  • Fiber Optic Components
  • Pace-makers
  • Bobbins
  • And many more…
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Parylene for use in Bio-Medical implantable devices

Posted by Sean Horn on Tue, Jun 12, 2012 @ 10:52 AM

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 not meet bio-compatibility requirements and cannot be applied with precise control.  On the contrary, parylene does not out-gas and is very effective against the passage of contaminants from both the body to substrate or substrate to body.

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Parylene-Enabled Flexible Prosthetic Devices: A Review

Posted by Sean Horn on Fri, May 25, 2012 @ 06:10 AM

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 its high flexibility and mechanical strength.
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