Hydrophilic Coatings for Biomedical Applications .

Hydrophilic coatings are applied to a wide range of surfaces of biomedical. This chapter addresses the need for coating in both in and ex-vivo settings for both blood contacting and non-blood-contacting applications, with illustrations of the coating chemistry used in each setting. Applications for non- fouling surfaces in diagnostics, lubricious surfaces on cardiovascular devices, and both lubricious and antimicrobial hydrophilic surfaces for urological applications are presented. Processes using both photochemical grafting and addiction cure technologies to generate hydrophilic surfaces are outlined, and a selection of polymers commonly employed in commercially available coating systems are considered and discussed in the context of the application area.

Author(s):

Vin Chan

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