Medical device employing liquid crystal block copolymers and method of making the same
AssigneeBoston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
InventorJohn J. Chen
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Abstract
A medical device, at least a portion of which is formed from a polymer composition including at least one liquid crystal block copolymer having at least one A block and at least one B block wherein the A block is formed of mesogenic repeat units and the B block is a soft block.
Claims20
An expandable medical balloon, the medical balloon formed from a polymer composition, the polymer composition comprising at least one first polymer and at least one liquid crystal block copolymer having at least one A block and at least one B block and wherein the A block comprises mesogenic repeat units and has a polymer backbone comprising no aliphatic unsaturation;
- and the B block is a soft block.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.