Over the past decade, the introduction of drug-eluting stents (DES) has revolutionized the field of interventional cardiology. To massively decrease stent restenosis, the DES-type of stent is coated ...

Optical coherence tomography can improve quality control and development of coated dosage forms by allowing film thickness to be measured in real time. The pharmaceutical coating process is a ...

Hot-dip galvanized coatings are famous for their toughness. They are among a handful of industrial coatings with the strength to withstand the adversities of transport and handling without being ...

(Nanowerk News) By using Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition approach, Chinese researchers attain DLC (diamond-like carbon)/ TiN (titanium nitride)-coated vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT ...

Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings have excellent properties such as high wear resistance, very low friction coefficient, and high corrosion resistance. Because of these excellent properties, DLC ...