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OverviewnBIOCOMP from
BeneqBiocompatible Coatings by Atomic Layer
DepositionApplicable nBIOCOMP Materials
Overview
Beneq Oy, based in Finland, is a supplier of equipment and coating technology for global markets. Beneq turns innovations into success by developing applications and equipment for cleantech and renewable energy fields, especially in glass, solar and emerging thin film markets. Coating applications include optics, barriers and passivation layers, as well as energy generation and conservation. Beneq also offers complete coating services. Beneq's coating applications are based on two enabling nanotechnology platforms: Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and aerosol coating (nHALO® and nAERO®).
nBIOCOMP from Beneq
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nBIOCOMP™ introduces the benefits of ALD thin
film technology to the medical industry. ALD enables
coating of medical implants and other tools and objects with thin films and
biocompatible materials on an industrial scale. Coating complex 3D structures
with just a few nanometer thick uniform films is an easy task with Beneq
nBIOCOMP technology. Beneq nBIOCOMP biocompatible coatings are now available for
medical research and industrial applications.
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Biocompatible Coatings by Atomic Layer Deposition
Biocompatible ALD films can be used to alter the properties of the interface
between an implant and human tissue, or to achieve improved abrasion and
corrosion resistance or reduced diffusion and friction properties. An ALD thin
film only a few nanometers thick is flexible an thus less prone to cracking and
formation and spreading of detrimental particles inside the human body. Also,
low and high protein binding affinity coatings can be deposited by ALD. They
are especially useful in diagnostics and in the preparative field, as well as
for surface coatings that resist bacterial growth. Applications include
laboratory vessels, analytical devices, biomedical appliances, instruments,
biochips, flow cells and items for surfaces which must be free of bacteria or to
resist accumulation of biological material.
Applicable nBIOCOMP Materials
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ALD can deposit, among many other materials:
- aluminum oxide (Al2O3)
- hydroxyapatite (HA)
- silicon dioxide (SiO2)
- titanium carbide (TiC)
- titanium nitride (TiN)
- titanium dioxide (TiO2)
- zirconium dioxide (ZrO2)
TiO2 is a versatile biocompatible coating material; it provides
the possibility to coat substrates at temperatures ranging from room temperature
to several hundreds of degrees centigrade. The crystal structure of
TiO2 can be tuned from amorphous to various mixtures of anatase and
rutile simply by changing the deposition temperature.
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