Polymer Tribology in Safety Medical Devices: Retractable Syringes
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We analyze an example of the application of polymer tribology to create a safety medical device, namely a retractable syringe. In service at various stages either lowor high-dynamic friction is needed. Our work focuses on a VanishPoint® nonreusable safety syringe manufactured by Retractable Technologies, Inc., Little Elm, TX. Different medical-grade materials strongly affect the performance of this product. Extant tribological testing methods developed for flat surfaces are of little use. A functionality test that provides static and dynamic friction between rounded and cylindrical parts moving one inside the other gives us data not obtainable from the earlier techniques. These results combined with the liquid blowout force results (also for cylindrical surfaces) tell us that a polyolefin elastomer imparts better properties to a polypropylenecontaining resin than does silica as an additive. Data-based selection of appropriate polymeric materials for components of the syringe thus becomes possible. C © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Adv Polym Techn 26: 56–64, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/adv.20084
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