Biomedical elastomer. Silicone elastomer for medical application.

Hydrophobic silicone elastomer chamber for recording

3 Koji MATSUURA, Yuka KURODA, Keisuke YAMASHITA, Hiroaki FUNAHASHI 3 4 5 Research Core for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan 6 Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan 7 Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Natural Sciences and Technologies, 8 Okayama University, Okayama, Japan 9 10 Running head: Porcine Mo...

Inadvertent application of silicone foam elastomer catalyst to the eye.

Silicone foam elastomer is used extensively to treat granulating wounds. A case is presented in which the catalyst to the polymer was inadvertently applied to the eye. This produced conjunctival and corneal injury, which was slow to heal and resistant to conventional treatment. This form of injury has not previously been described.

Stain removal from a silicone maxillofacial elastomer.

In this study, environmental stains were removed from maxillofacial elastomers by solvent extraction. Silastic 44210, an RTV silicone with proven color and physical property stability, was stained with lipstick, disclosing solution, and methylene blue. These stains were then removed by solvent extraction with each of four chemically dissimilar solvents, namely: toluene, benzene, 1,1,1-trichloro...

Reiterated tension testing of silicone elastomer

A peristaltically actuated device, PADeMIS, composed of silicone rubber (SR) is under development for use in minimally invasive surgery. During locomotion, the device will be subject to a few thousand load changes involving varying, sometimes high, strains. The design is being optimised by finite element analysis, for which a constitutive law for the mechanical behaviour of silicone rubber is r...

Study of Fibroblast Cells Behavior on the Acrylic Acid Co2 Pulsed Laser Grafted Silicone Elastomer for Tissue Engineering Application