10.16.15
The Truth about Parylene Coating & Medical Devices
By Diamond-MT
This whitepaper provides a comprehensive overview of parylene conformal coating, advantages and disadvantages of using parylene, and applications for parylene coating to enable medical device technologies.
As technology continues to advance, medical devices continue to be at the forefront of development. There are hardly more demanding environments than the human body, and it is vital that medical devices that enable human success are properly protected. Parylene is one way that manufacturers are giving their devices a higher level of protection, along with increasing the overall quality of their products.
Parylene coating applications for medical devices include:
- Stents
- Catheters
- Cardiac assist devices
- Electro-surgical tools
- Implantable devices
- Medical Electronics
- Elastomers