Formlabs Formlabs BioMed Amber Resin (1L) for Form 4
BioMed Resin by Formlabs is a biocompatible, rigid material designed for medical applications requiring long-term skin or short-term mucosal membrane contact, offering high-quality, sterilizable parts with excellent mechanical properties.
Key Highlights:
- Biocompatibility: Suitable for long-term skin contact and short-term mucosal membrane contact, with certifications including USP Class VI and manufactured in an ISO 13485 facility.
- Mechanical Properties: Features high tensile strength (35.71 MPa), elongation at break (14%), and heat deflection temperature (67.9ºC).
- Versatile Applications: Ideal for medical devices, biocompatible molds, and consumer goods requiring patient contact.
- Printer Compatibility: Supports Form 2, Form 3B, Form 3B+, and Form 3BL printers, ensuring wide accessibility for various medical manufacturing needs.
- Sterilization Compatibility: Compatible with common solvent disinfection and sterilization methods, enhancing its utility in medical environments.
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Formlabs BioMed Resins
Formlabs is dedicated to enhancing patient care by providing all medical facilities with the latest in biocompatible materials like BioMed Resin, designed for direct patient contact and backed by rigorous certifications.
Key Points:
- Biocompatible Design: Engineered for safe use in long-term skin or short-term mucosal contact applications, featuring a matte finish.
- High Standards: Produced in an ISO 13485 certified facility and boasting USP Class VI certification, making it ideal for pharmaceutical uses.
- Technical Compatibility: Offers print resolutions of 100 µm and 50 µm, with post-curing needed to achieve optimal material properties.
Why Choose Formlabs BioMed Resins?
Opt for BioMed Resin for your 3D printing projects to drive medical innovation with devices that require top-notch performance and biocompatibility.
Highlights:
- Medical-Grade Quality: Crafted within a Quality Management System that strictly follows ISO 13485 standards.
- Precision and Complexity: Enables the creation of parts and assemblies with intricate designs and detailed geometries.
- Visual Clarity: Offers a matte finish that enhances contrast, aiding in the visualization of different substances or surfaces.
- Safety and Compliance: Undergoes rigorous testing to ensure suitability for biocompatible applications, also supporting common sterilization methods for ultimate hygiene.
Formlabs BioMed Resin Applications
Leverage BioMed Resin for crafting robust, biocompatible components with a matte finish, ideal for both point-of-care and broader medical manufacturing needs.
- Versatile Applications: Excellently suited for medical devices, device components, and direct patient-contact parts.
- Precision Tooling: Create precise biocompatible molds, jigs, and fixtures for specialized medical procedures.
- Patient Safety: Designed for products requiring safe, long-term skin contact.
- Beyond Medicine: Also applicable for consumer goods needing biocompatible materials.
*In contrast to Formlabs Dental Resins, BioMed Resins come without specified intended uses. The characteristics of the material can change depending on the design of the part, the manufacturing process, and other techniques used. It falls upon the manufacturer, along with their clients and the final users, to verify the suitability for biocompatibility and functionality of all printed items for their specific needs and applications. Formlabs ensures reliability by conducting tests on biocompatibility and sterilization for typical applications and producing BioMed Resins in an environment certified by ISO 13485. We are prepared to provide examples of customer successes with our products, along with accessible supporting documents.
Easy to Post-Process
Ensure optimal results in post-processing with dedicated steps for washing and curing BioMed resins, adhering to specific conditions to maintain biocompatibility and achieve desired material properties.
- Washing Process:
- Duration: 5 minutes in IPA, or until fully clean.
- Important Guidelines: Ensure cleaning with IPA of 99% concentration or higher. Use a separate IPA bath exclusively for biocompatible resins to prevent contamination from other resin types.
- Curing Process:
- Curing Time: 60 minutes.
- Curing Temperature: Set to 70°C.
- Additional Notes: Adhere to the specified post-curing guidelines to ensure optimal material properties are achieved.
Technical Specifications for Formlabs BioMed Resins:
Printer Compatibility:
- Form 4B
- For the Form 3 version, click here.
Resin Tank Compatibility:
Build Platform Compatibility:
* Certified Biocompatible.
Material Properties:
- Type: SLA
- Application: Medical
- Print Resolutions: Supports 100 µm and 50µm
- Ultimate Tensile Strength: 35.71 MPa
- Tensile Modulus: 1523.74 MPa
- Elongation: 14%
- Flexural Strength: 57.16 MPa
- Flexural Modulus: 1668.53 MPa
- Hardness Shore D: 77 D
- Notched Izod: 24.77 J/m
- Heat Deflection Temp @ 0.45 MPa: 67.9ºC
- Material properties may vary based on part geometry, print orientation, print settings, and temperature
- Measurements were taken from samples that had been post-cured, which were printed on a Form 3B using 100um BioMed Resin settings. These samples underwent a 5-minute wash in 99% Isopropyl Alcohol within a Form Wash, followed by a 60-minute post-cure at 70°C in a Form Cure.
- The BioMed Resin underwent testing at the NAMSA World Headquarters located in Ohio, USA.
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