Author: Peter Swanson

Medical device manufacturing has a well deserved reputation for rigorous manufacturing and process control. There is no compromise on quality when people’s lives are at stake. This focus on quality control and assessment certainly applies to medical devices made from metal — for example, implants, replacement joints, endoscopes and cannulas, all of which are inserted […]

A tensiometer is an instrument used to measure the surface tension of liquids. It can also measure other properties, like contact angle. Surface tension comes from the cohesive forces between the molecules of a liquid. At the surface of a liquid, the molecules predominantly experience forces pointing inward, leading to the formation of a ‘skin’ […]