Biocompatibles Limited

Yiannakis Petrou Yianni

Martin C Wiles

Peter William Stratford

Domenic N Santoianni

Daniel Nahon

Alistair Stewart Taylor

Stephen Alexander Charles

Jeremy Colin Russell

Matthew John Woodroffe

Kadem G Al-Lamee

Clement H Bamford

Trevor O Glasbey

J Christopher Flaherty

Maurice Buchbinder

A process for coating a blood-contacting surface comprising applying a solution of a fatty acid diester of phosphatidyl choline in an organic solvent to the surface and removing the solvent, provides a non-thrombogenic coating of phosphatidyl choline di-ester to the surface. Material for use in a blood-contacting device having such a coating and a blood-contacting device having such a coating.

Non-thrombogenic surfaces

Braided stent

Metal coating useful for rendering the surface of the metal biocompatible

Polymeric coating

A graft polymer obtainable by grafting a polymer substrate with a compound of formula (I), in which the groups R are the same or different and each is a straight or branched C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group; X is an aryl group or a straight or branched C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkylene group, optionally containing one or more carbon-carbon double or triple bonds, ether linkages or aryl groups; the aryl groups being unsubstituted or substituted by one or more C.sub.1-4 alkyl groups; n is from 2 to 4; and A is a reactive group, is useful as a biocompatible material in contact lenses, biomedical devices and blood-containing devices. In a preferred embodiment A is a polymerizable group and the graft polymer is produced by radical initiated polymerization of the compound of formula (I) on the substrate which is initiated by a radical-forming group on the substrate.

Polymer treatments

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Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Yiannakis Petrou Yianni