Innovative Iteration for Medical Device Design
April 22, 2024 | News & Insights
Poly-Med’s Chief Technology Officer, Scott Taylor, PhD, was interviewed for the MPO article ‘Innovative Iteration for Medical Device Design.’ In this Q&A session, Dr. Taylor discusses recent trends in the use of 3D printing for rapid prototyping for device design and manufacturing of absorbable & implantable medical devices.
One of these new material platforms is Poly-Med’s Photoset, a first-in-class UV-curable, mechanically competent, fully absorbable material. Photoset can be used in digital light processing (DLP) and stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing applications to create high-resolution parts. Additionally, since SLA and DLP are more scalable than fused deposition modeling, this material allows for rapid prototyping of designs that directly translate into scaled and multiplexed manufacturing processes. “Thus, an R&D effort can avoid a 3D printing to injection molding transition, ultimately increasing speed to market, decreasing development cost, and unlocking unique designs for differentiated products,” said Taylor.
