Patent ID: 6454797
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: A61F,A61L,C23C,H01J,Y10T

Abstract:
A medical implant adapted for implantation within a mammal and having a tissue facing surface wherein at least a portion of said tissue facing surface has a non-turbostratic, two-dimensionally ordered, densely packed, linear chain carbon coating affixed thereto comprising a plurality of linear carbon chains, each said carbon chain having an inner end adjacent to said tissue facing surface and an outer end in opposition thereto and a carbon chain axis therebetween wherein said carbon chain axis is defined as being line connecting said inner end and said outer end and wherein said carbon chain axis is oriented substantially perpendicular to a plane tangent to said tissue facing surface at a point on said surface immediately adjacent to said inner end and wherein said inner end of a portion of said plurality of linear carbon chains is chemically bonded to said tissue facing surface of said medical implant.