Plastic tubing used in medical equipment could be coated with thin layers of bio-friendly proteins.
Spectacles could be coated more effectively with scratch-resistant chemicals, simply by dunking them in the appropriate solution.
Functional molecules - for example "hydrophobic" molecules that repel water and dirt - can be coated onto the surfaces of products.
This layer can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.
Nanogate takes a material to be coated, applies a layer of adhesive nanoparticles and then adds another layer of non-adhesive nanoparticles that bind to the first layer.
Moreover, antennas and power connections must be equipped with surge protectors, windows must be coated with wire mesh or conductive coating, and doors must be sealed with conductive gaskets.
Instead of perfectly preserved beef, they found putrid meat so rotten that the stone floors needed to be coated with chloride of lime to mask the stench, according to an account in the Illustrated London News.
They built a thin layer, or "nanostructure, " using minute particles of titanium dioxide, a substance that reacts with sunlight to break down dirt and other organic material and can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.
Wald thinks the same will be true for drug-coated stents: Sales may be determined as much by the material properties of the stent as by the restinosis rates, which, Wald says, are similar among competitors.
While debt investors have been giving Spanish government bonds an extra sniff and property firms have tottered, the banks have appeared to be Teflon-coated.
And so, that's right to be like, getting this sort of coated word, coated words being thrown out that may not be in the category of the race card, but maybe in the same family.
Though they have their differences, they all want to be reborn as tastier dumplings coated with a sweet-bean paste, and to remain side by side, as before, on the same skewer.
Makers of drug-coated stents could be hurt further by results from a clinical trial being released at the end of the month--even though the study will test few, if any, of these drug-releasing devices.
The four-inch square patches can then be joined together using Velcro that contains silver-coated contacts to enable electrical connectivity.
Medtronic released data from clinical trials showing that its new drug-coated stent, Endeavor, might actually be safer than an older version.
Medtronic (nyse: MDT - news - people ) released data from clinical trials showing that its new drug-coated stent, Endeavor, might actually be safer than an older version.
At 50-something, Ms. Fleming is lithe and slender enough to be a convincing debutante, and her cream-coated voice can float Strauss's melodic lines so beautifully they might bring tears to romantic eyes.
Advocates of greater drug-coated stent use say that COURAGE may not be a fair test.
To search for a target molecule, then, all that would be needed would be to sprinkle a sample thought to contain it with magnetic nanoparticles coated with the appropriate antibody or DNA and then run it over a spin valve.
The nastiest-looking arteries might be stabilized with some form of local therapy, such as drug-coated stents, light-activated drugs to kill off inflamed cells or even gene therapy.
Every night, when the humans are tucked up in bed, the robots are collected by truck to be cleaned and repaired in huge labs populated by giant computers and white coated and masked technicians.
In the past year, Guidant has lost a long series of legal and scientific battles to be one of the first companies to bring to market a drug-coated heart stent, which helps prevent arteries from re-clogging.
Michie's Whale Skull Bone will be made using a metal framework inside a carved dense polystyrene material which is then coated in reinforced concrete.
The material to be tested is liquefied and passed through a filter made up of glass beads which are coated with the antibodies.
And, while the current generation of drug-coated stents can only deliver a subset of medicines, Litvack says his stent could be used to deliver a much broader range of pharmaceuticals--theoretically including medicines to reverse artery disease.
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