An intravascular multi-side hole catheter containing a bioscaffold capable of housing therapeutic cells is provided. The catheter comprises a plurality of side holes distributed along the length of the catheter in a spiraling corkscrew pattern. The bioscaffold inside the catheter is designed with a plurality of macropores capable of encapsulating therapeutic cells for cellular therapy. Upon placement of the catheter in a vein, the side holes allow blood to flow though the catheter thereby supplying oxygen and nutrients to any loaded cellular cargo and also providing for the removal of waste products. Methods of producing the intravascular catheter and methods of using the intravascular catheter in cellular therapy, including for delivery of insulin-secreting cells such as beta cells or stem cell-derived islets into blood vessels for treating type 1 diabetes are also disclosed.

Novel methods for producing porous silicone compositions are disclosed. Methods of this invention provide improved processes for preparing porous silicone rubbers having low specific gravity and mainly closed cells which are suitable for highly permeable gas penetration while adequately sealing liquid material. Examples of these sealing materials include but are not limited to encapsulants for bioindicators and syringe sealing components wherein the permeability is sufficient to permit sterilization while preventing passage or leaking of liquids to be sterilized through the described silicone materials.

A composite material is formed by combining an expandable polymer having a charge with another polymer having an opposite charge to produce. In particular, the composite material can be prepared by combining the polymers with a medium such as and water, and expanding the mixture using a treatment that expands the mixture to produce, for example, insoluble porous foam-like composite

The present invention includes a hydrogel and a method of making a porous hydrogel by preparing an aqueous mixture of an uncrosslinked polymer and a crystallizable molecule; casting the mixture into a vessel; allowing the cast mixture to dry to form an amorphous hydrogel film; seeding the cast mixture with a seed crystal of the crystallizable molecule; growing the crystallizable molecule into a crystal structure within the uncrosslinked polymer; crosslinking the polymer around the crystal structure under conditions in which the crystal structure within the crosslinked polymer is maintained; and dissolving the crystals within the crosslinked polymer to form the porous hydrogel.

Provided are methods for making shaped fluoropolymer by additive processing using fluoropolymer particles, polymerizable binder and extraction with supercritical fluids. Also provided are 3D printable compositions for making shaped fluoropolymer articles and articles comprising a shaped fluoropolymer.

The present disclosure provides a recombinant collagen and a recombinant collagen sponge material. The recombinant collagen comprises: (a) a protein composed of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2; and/or (b) a protein which has the same function as (a) and is derived from (a) by substitution, deletion and/or addition of one or more amino acids in SEQ ID NO:2. The recombinant collagen sponge material is obtained by sequential physical cross-linking and chemical cross-linking of the recombinant collagen. The recombinant collagen sponge material according to the present disclosure is capable of hemostasis, wound surface repair, moisture absorption and platelet aggregation, and has high moisture absorption, a significant hemostatic effect and good biocompatibility, assuming great clinical significance in the field of surgery.

An embodiment includes a system comprising a thermoset polyurethane shape memory polymer (SMP) foam that includes at least one antimicrobial agent. The antimicrobial agent may include at least one phenolic acid that is a pendent group chemically bonded to a polyurethane polymer chain of the SMP foam. Other embodiments are described herein.

Implantable devices for orthopedic, including spine and other uses are formed of porous reinforced polymer scaffolds. Scaffolds include a thermoplastic polymer forming a porous matrix that has continuously interconnected pores. The porosity and the size of the pores within the scaffold are selectively formed during synthesis of the composite material, and the composite material includes a plurality of reinforcement particles integrally formed within and embedded in the matrix and exposed on the pore surfaces. The reinforcement particles provide one or more of reinforcement, bioactivity, or bioresorption.

The present invention provides a method to prepare polymer materials with interlocked porous structures by freezing and demulsification, which includes: (1) Preparing an emulsion containing uncrosslinked polymers and crosslinking agents. The uncrosslinked polymers are presented in the organic phase, and the crosslinking agents are presented in the organic phase or water phase. Under freezing, the demulsification is occurred which leads to the interaction between polymers and crosslinking agents, and the crosslinked materials are obtained. (2) After removing the ice crystals, polymer materials with interlocked porous structures are synthesized. The method provided by the present invention is simple to operate, and can well adjust the porous structures of obtained porous polymer materials. In addition, it is suitable for large scale manufacturing. At the same time, this process can form different functional porous polymer materials by simply changing the used monomers. Particularly, it can prepare melt-blown fabrics with antibacterial property, high-throughput vertical porous structures and high-temperature sterilizable feature, therefore, it can be used to manufacture medical products such as masks.

A BAK removal device is constructed as a plug of microparticles of a hydrophilic polymeric gel that displays a hydraulic permeability greater than 0.01 Da. The polymer hydrophilic polymeric gel comprises poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (pHEMA). The particles are 2 to 100 μm and the plug has a surface area of 30 mm.sup.2 to 2 mm.sup.2 and a length of 2 mm to 25 mm and wherein the microparticles of a hydrophilic polymeric gel has a pore radius of 3 to 60 μm.