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SLIP-COAT™ Technology

SLIP-COAT™

Lubricious, Hydrophilic Surfaces for Medical Devices

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Angiotech's superior lubricious coating uses the body's own fluids to dramatically reduce frictional forces up to 90%.

Key Advantages

  • Proven surface biocompatibility.
  • Non-reactive hydrophilic/hydrophobic, polymer matrix.
  • Can be varied to optimize performance characteristics, such as lubricity, flexibility and hydration.
  • Easy customization to meet any performance specification.

Principle

1. The key to SLIP-COAT™ performance is a patented hydrophilic/hydrophobic polymer matrix.

2. When the coating is exposed to aqueous fluids, moisture is absorbed and retained in the coating by the hydrophilic components.

3. These fluids create a slippery surface, with a high fluid concentration at the coating surface.

4. The hydrophobic components hold the matrix together and firmly anchor it to the substrate.

5. Lubricity can easily be tailored to the device by varying the proportions of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic components in the coating.

Additional Advantages

  • Easy, low friction insertion, manipulation and removal of devices.

  • Customizable lubricity, a real advantage over "one-size-fits-all".

  • Devices with irregular geometries are easily coated.
  • Permanent bond.
  • Low cost, reliable processing.
  • SLIP-COAT™ has been used to coat a variety of medical devices world-wide for well over 10 years.

Coefficient of Friction for Coated Neurointerventional Guidewires Made from Nitinol

Coefficient of Friction for Various Substrates



SLIP-COAT™ Specifications

Coating Thickness
  • 3 to 10 microns
  • .0001 to .0004 inches


Potential Applications
  • Catheters
  • Guidewires
  • Introducers
  • Shunts
  • Tubes
  • Endoscopes
  • Blades
  • Needles
Coated Substrates
  • Polymerics:

    • PVC
    • Polyurethane
    • Polystyrene
    • PET
    • PBAX
    • Polyamide
    • Polyimide
    • Polypropylene
    • Polyethylene
    • Silicone
    • Silastic
    • Latex


  • Metallics:

    • Stainless Steel
    • Titanium
    • Platinum
    • Nitinol


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