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Patent No.:

US 10179180 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 05, 2014

Local thermal actuation of material surfaces via micro- and nanowire heating for the prevention of cellular attachment and biological fouling

Applicant:

Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);

Inventors:

Steve L. Allman, Knoxville, TN (US);

Mitchel J Doktycz, Knoxville, TN (US);

Scott T Retterer, Knoxville, TN (US);

David P. Allison, Lenoir City, TN (US);

Assignee:

UT-BATTELLE, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);

Attorney:

Scully Scott Murphy & Presser

Primary Examiner:

Kevin Joyner

Assistant Examiner:

Holly M Mull

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 2/03 (2006.01); A61L 27/44 (2006.01); A61L 27/50 (2006.01); A61L 29/12 (2006.01); A61L 29/14 (2006.01); A61L 27/48 (2006.01); A61L 31/12 (2006.01); A61L 31/14 (2006.01); A61L 27/34 (2006.01); A61L 29/08 (2006.01); B82Y 30/00 (2011.01); B82Y 40/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 2/03 (2013.01); A61L 27/34 (2013.01); A61L 27/443 (2013.01); A61L 27/446 (2013.01); A61L 27/48 (2013.01); A61L 29/085 (2013.01); A61L 29/126 (2013.01); A61L 31/126 (2013.01); A61L 31/128 (2013.01); A61L 31/129 (2013.01); A61L 31/14 (2013.01); Y10T 428/31507 (2015.04); Y10T 428/31551 (2015.04); Y10T 428/31605 (2015.04); Y10T 428/31663 (2015.04); Y10T 428/31681 (2015.04); Y10T 428/31692 (2015.04); Y10T 428/31721 (2015.04); Y10T 428/31725 (2015.04); Y10T 428/31739 (2015.04); Y10T 428/31826 (2015.04); Y10T 428/31938 (2015.04);
Abstract

The invention relates in various embodiments to a composite useful as e.g. a medical implant device, and a method of treating fouling, including biofouling as may occur on an implant. The composite comprises a matrix phase and a patterned phase that comprises an energetically activatable wire intermixed with the matrix phase, the wire when energetically activated, which includes thermal activation, causes modification of at least a portion of the matrix phase to treat fouling that might otherwise occur. The method of treating biofouling may be practiced on a patent while the medical implant of the invention is in situ.

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