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GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing
GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing offers a solution for the ergonomic and durability concerns of the medical market. This innovative product provides superior lubricity, increased tensile strength, torsion deformation resistance, and multi-modality sterilization. GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing is a unique patented fluoropolymer silicone composite technology that optimizes the benefits of silicone and PTFE. GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing has a silky smooth surface feel and provides greater durability and comfort when compared to conventional silicone.
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How to Buy
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Medical Applications
With the rigors of preoperative and postoperative cleansing procedures, medical equipment is under assault. Today’s medical environment demands materials that are sterilizable, biocompatible, and above all, durable. GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing is suitable for a broad range of medical applications, but its unique properties make it an ideal match for the ergonomic and torsion demands of electrophysiology cables.
GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing offers these characteristics as well as superior ergonomic advantages over currently established materials. GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing also offers better retention of key mechanical properties: strength, flexibility, and longevity. Even after 3,000 autoclave cycles, GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing maintains its initial performance characteristics. In addition to improved handling, the tubing has a longer field life when compared to traditional medical tubing materials. GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing can be designed in a range of sizes from 0.5mm to 14mm.
Features and Benefits
- High Tensile Strength
- Very Low Elongation
- Low Coefficient of Friction
- Passes Cytotoxicity Test
- Multi-Modality Sterilization Compatibility
- Improved Flex Life
- Improved Abrasion Resistance
- Decreased Torsion Deformation
Properties
| Property | GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Tubing |
Silicone |
|---|---|---|
| Tensile Strength (psi) | 5,000 - 7,000 | 1,518 |
| Modulus (psi) | 50,000 - 75,000 | 472 |
| Elongation (%) | 10 | 798 |
| Specific Gravity | 1.0 - 1.5 | 1.0 |
| Autoclave Fatigue Resistance | Excellent | Fair |
| High Temp Integrity | Excellent | Fair |
| Life Expectancy (Autoclave Cycles) | +3,000 | +1,000 |
GORE™ SIL-KORE™ Material is also available as a cable jacket. Please contact us for more information.