Polydimethylsiloxane

CD Bioparticles, a leading manufacturer and supplier of numerous drug delivery products and services, has announced an expanded portfolio of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) products, empowering researchers with versatile and biocompatible tools for groundbreaking discoveries. Polydimethylsiloxane is an elastomeric polymer with interesting properties for biomedical applications, including non-physiological reactivity, excellent resistance to biodegradation, biocompatibility, chemical stability, gas permeability, good mechanical properties, excellent optical transparency, and easy replication molding. Based on these properties, PDMS has been used in a wide range of applications such as micropumps, catheter surfaces, dressings and bandages, microvalves, optical systems, in vitro disease studies, implants, microfluidics, and photonics. In addition, PDMS is the most widely used material for the manufacture of microfluidic devices, which are an important technology for the development of systems for drug delivery, DNA sequencing, clinical diagnostics, point-of-care testing, and chemical synthesis. The materials used in these systems should be biocompatible, optically transparent, rapid to prototype and low cost to manufacture, characteristics of PDMS. In the pharmaceutical field, PDMS derivatives have been widely used as coatings for controlled drug delivery systems. The main advantages of these materials are the ease of tuning the desired drug release pattern, improved film formation and storage stability. Recognizing its immense potential, CD Bioparticles has significantly broadened its PDMS offerings to cater to the evolving needs of researchers, including PDMS Grafted Triethoxysilane, Si-PSSNa, Butyl-PDMS-Triethoxysilane, and Cyclocarbonate-PDMS-Cyclocarbonate.