Adhesives for Molecular Diagnostic Instruments

With the proliferation of infectious diseases such as the latest strain of the coronavirus i.e Covid-19 worldwide, there is a critical need to develop tests, which can detect patients who have contracted the disease. Master Bond has been developing specialty medical grade adhesives, sealants, coatings, impregnation materials, and encapsulation compounds for medical device companies, which are the forefront of designing and manufacturing instruments that can detect such diseases. Molecular diagnostic technology and instruments are widely employed and recognized as not only an efficient and fast method of detecting diseases, but also as an accurate and reliable tool.

Master Bond has been helping medical device customers over the years, and our products have been widely employed in biosensors, microfluidic applications, and in the assembly of diagnostic instruments. One example is our structural adhesive EP31, which was successfully used for bonding acrylic and aluminum components, in a molecular diagnostic instrument, for a non-instrumented nucleic acid amplification system.¹

Many Master Bond products meet the USP Class VI and/or ISO10993-5 test requirements. Some examples of systems which meet both USP Class VI for biocompatibility and ISO10993-5 for cytotoxicity are:

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²To, Gary; Mahfouz, Mohamed. Center for Musculoskeletal Research The University of Tennessee. Qu, Wenchao; Islama, Syed K., Department of Electrical Engineering The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. “Multi-channels wireless strain mapping instrument for total knee arthoplasty with 30 microcantilevers and ASIC Technology.” https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/research/grouplist/sensorsanddevices/mbl/database/ieeesensors08/PDFs/Papers/280_6396.pdf

³United States Patent Application Publication, Pub. No.: US 2013/0057390 A1. Pub. Date: Mar. 7, 2013. Radio Frequency Identification Tags For Use In Extreme Environments. Inventors: David Watt, Newark, CA. Fay, Stanford, CA. Jose Joseph, Palo Alto, CA.Karen Marie Nashold, San Francisco, CA. David Watters, Sunnyvale, CA. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2013/0057390.html

⁴United States Patent Van Wyk et al. Patent No.: US 8,486,064 B2. Date of Patent: Jul. 16, 2013. Electrosurgical Device Having Floating-Potential Electrode and Curvilinear Profile. Inventors: Robert A. Van Wyk, St. Pete Beach, FL. Yuval Carmel, Rockville, MD. Anatoly Shkvarunets, Rockville, MD.

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⁷Moen, Lars Lyse. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Engineering Cybernetics. "An Implantable Device for Electrical Nerve Stimulation." July 2014.