A61B 2017/00853
Low friction, hydrophobic and corrosion-resistant fluorocarbon resin coating
Official title: {low friction, hydrophobic and corrosion-resistant fluorocarbon resin coating (ptf, ptfe, polytetrafluoroethylene)}
A61B2017/00853 (Low friction, hydrophobic and corrosion-resistant fluorocarbon resin coating) appears on 275 US grants and 381 published applications in this corpus.
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