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UMichigan Startup to Commercialize Polymer Coating Technology

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The University of Michigan has partnered with Allied Minds of Quincy, Mass., an investment company specializing in early-stage university business ventures, to develop a startup company, Biotectix LLC. The company will specialize in novel soft bioactive electrodes and coatings designed to enhance a wide variety of medical devices. Traditional metal biomedical device electrodes -- such as pacemakers, cochlear implants, glucose sensors and deep-brain stimulators -- are hard, energy inefficient, non-biocompatible, can cause tissue damage and scarring, and have limited-MRI compatibility. They also don't function for as long or as well as intended, leading to more frequent battery replacement. To address this, Biotextix developed soft, bioactive conductive polymer electrodes and coatings for microelectrodes and neural prosthetic devices that work better and need less frequent battery changes. Drug release from the polymer coating can also be controlled. Biotectix has exclusively licensed the technology, developed at the university's Organic Electronics and Electroactive Biomaterials Laboratory by David Martin and Sarah Richardson-Burns with Jeff Hendrix.
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nano
An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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