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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Contact Lenses, Sutures, and More

There are millions of people globally who benefit from medical procedures and medical devices … from being fitted for catheters, to mended with sutures, to seeing through contact lenses. These components are constantly optimized by engineers and scientists thanks to the application of multiple tests, the most common and crucial being a tensile test. But what about testing them in vitro?

Providing the appropriate in vitro conditions for these materials offers them a similar environment to where they will be used – inside the human body. Using a temperature-controlled bath to simulate the human body is ideal when tensile testing fragile biological tissues, thin films, fine wires, bio-engineered tissues, and hydrogels. Watch to see how the unique pneumatic lifting mechanism of the bath provides easy access to the grips to insert the biomedical specimens.

And leave us a comment if you’d like to hear more information on the Microscope Camera (with a power magnification of 400X) that can record the details of the test for future reanalysis like characteristics of material failure.

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