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SBIR Phase II: ECR (Electron Cyclotron Resonance) Plasma Treatment of Polymer Tubing Such As Catheters

Award Information
Agency: National Science Foundation
Branch: N/A
Contract: 0238947
Agency Tracking Number: 0238947
Amount: $445,576.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2003
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
One Patriots Park
Bedford, MA 01730
United States
DUNS: N/A
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 James Moe
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Business Contact
Phone: () -
Research Institution
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Abstract

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop new techniques to treat both internal and external surfaces of polymer tubing such as catheters. The treatments will modify the surfaces to facilitate attachment of bioactive coatings, clean, sterilize, or reduce friction; similar processes can also deposit organic or inorganic coatings. Plasmas driven by electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) will treat the lumen and external surfaces more uniformly, and over a greater range of
parameters, than conventional plasmas and can be spatially localized to provide different effects
on each.

The ECR plasma process should be expandable to large-scale, low-cost commercial production
coating and surface modification of catheters. Surface treatments to facilitate attachment of
bioactive coatings to hemodialysis and other catheter types would have societal benefits by
extending the period between catheter replacements clear therapeutic and economic.

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