Picosun enters medical device coatings market

Coatings maker Picosun Group said it has developed a product family specifically for the needs of medical device manufacturers.

Picosun (Espoo, Finland)  makes biocompatible and bioactive atomic layer deposition (ALD) thin film coatings designed to form a pinhole-free, conformal, uniform and hermetic encapsulation around the coated object. This speeds up the healing process and protects the patient from possible metal ion leakage from the implant into the body, according to the company. Picosun is already in the surgical instrument market. In the pharmaceutical industry, the company’s powder ALD technology is used to functionalize the surface of drug particles for controlled drug delivery.

Now the company is expanding into coatings for implantable microelectronic sensors for wearable medical devices made for neurological and cardiological conditions. The coatings are designed to protect the implanted parts from corrosion caused by body fluids, and the patient from the rejection reaction caused by an “alien” object in the body.

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