Coatings, materials, and devices with biohealing properties
OwnerKondapavulur T. Venkateswara-Raoinventor
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Abstract
Coatings, materials, and devices with biohealing properties are described. A biohealing coating may include a base material and biohealing particles. The base material may include a polymer. The biohealing particles may include one or more of metal particles, alloy particles, metal oxide particles, carbon particles, carbide particles, and nitride particles. The biohealing coating may be applied to an implantable device. A biohealing material may include a base material in bulk form and biohealing particles. The biohealing material may be used to manufacture an implantable device. An implantable device may include one or both of a biohealing coating and a biohealing material.
Claims6
An implantable device comprising:
- a stent made of a polymer;
- a drug in the polymer;
- and
- stainless steel particles distributed uniformly in the polymer in a volume fraction of approximately 0.0001 to 10%.
An implantable device comprising:
- a stent made of a polymer;
- a drug in the polymer;
- and
- cobalt-chromium alloy particles distributed uniformly in the polymer in a volume fraction of approximately 0.0001 to 5%.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.