Vascular medical devices, such as stents, catheters and more advanced devices inevitably
interact with surfaces within the human body. These interactions and the underlying …

Blood-contacting devices must be designed to minimize the risk of bloodstream-associated
infections, thrombosis, and intimal lesions caused by surface friction. However, achieving …

The friction behaviour of new chitosan derivative coatings obtained by chemical modification
of chitosan with fatty acids (linoleic and dilinoleic acid) has been investigated in order to …

Multifunctional and biofunctional coatings for medical devices are an attractive strategy
towards tailoring the interactions of the device with the body, thereby influencing the host …

This paper suggests a novel method for the positioning control of a magnetically steerable
guidewire without needing to detect a tip angle, which can pass through sharply curved …

Despite the fact that transcatheter cardiovascular interventions are increasingly prevalent
nowadays, friction damage caused by mechanical interaction between blood vessel and …

Catheterization is a common medical operation to diagnose and treat cardiovascular
diseases. The blood vessel lumen is coated with endothelial glycocalyx layer (EGL), which …

Hydrophilic lubricious coatings on the catheter surface reduce friction against the blood
vessel wall but give rise to iatrogenic complication of particle release, embolization and thin …

In this paper, we study the dissection of arterial layers by means of a stiff, planar, penetrating
external body (a 'wedge'), and formulate a novel model of the process using cohesive zone …

During intravascular procedures, medical devices interact mechanically with vascular tissue.
The device design faces a trade-off: although a high bending stiffness improves its …