Safer medical devices with Picosun’s antimicrobial ALD coatings
ESPOO, Finland, 12[th] February 2021 – Picosun Group, the leading provider of AGILE ALD[®] (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating technology and solutions, reports excellent aseptic properties measured from its ALD materials. Numerous ALD oxide coatings deposited with Picosun’s processes showed remarkable reduction of microbial growth and had low values of bacterial endotoxin contamination[(*)]. The coatings were characterized by an independent third party laboratory according to ISO 22196:2011 antimicrobial standard and ANSI/AAMI ST72:2019 bacterial endotoxin standards. These