Skaltek, an innovative start-up from Troitsk just outside Moscow, has developed technology to apply carbon coatings to medical instruments to make surgeries less painful and more effective, the website of Troitsk’s Technospark innovation center announced. The effort is a joint project between Technospark and the Mordovia Nanotech Center in the mid-Volga area.
The project is built around the idea of coating the blade of a surgical scalpel with a new diamond-like material. The coating is expected to make the instrument harder and less rasping on its cutting edge.
Such a scalpel would be in great demand in oral and maxillofacial surgery, as well as plastic surgery, as it would make invasive treatment less painful and stimulate faster post-surgery convalescence.
The start-up team is currently working to modify its technology to enable the application of coatings on an industrial scale basis. According to the source, the global market «does not offer a product with such a coating and such properties at the moment.»
The effort was earlier supported by Russia’s Bortnik Fund, a government-owned backer of small innovative technology teams, with a $20,000 grant. On June 2–3, Skaltek expects to participate in Startup Village, an international event in the Skolkovo innovation hub outside Moscow. The young company is hoping to bring its product to the attention of investors and, as Skaltek CEO Igor Belashov put it, «showcase its solution on the global arena.»
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