Implantable Medical Devices

Polyurethanes are increasingly becoming the biomaterial of choice for biomedical applications due to their superior mechanical strength, biocompatibility, abrasion resistance, and manufacturability.

There are two main categories of medical grade polyurethanes: biostable and biodegradable. Biostable polyurethanes are used in medical devices such as catheters, infusion pumps, and cardiac pacemakers. Absorbable polyurethanes are an emerging biomaterial used for implantable medical devices in wound healing, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, and neural repair applications.

After years in development, your medical device was finally approved or cleared by the FDA and is now on the market. Whether your device was 100% or partially made with a synthetic bioabsorbable polymer, you probably had to compromise with the polymer properties and functional performance because you could not find a polymer that met all your design requirements…