Patent ID: 8133346

Claim:
A method for fabricating a medical device, the method comprising the steps of: providing a first member, the first member having a first surface with an available surface oxygen; providing a second member, the second member having a second surface with an available surface oxygen; providing a bonding agent having a plurality of secondary hydroxyl functional groups with an affinity to form hydrogen bonds with the oxygen present on the surface of the first and the second member; and indirectly affixing the first member and the second member with the bonding agent by heating at least one of the first member, the second member or the bonding agent until (i) forming a covalent bond between the available surface oxygen on the first surface and at least one of the hydroxyl functional groups of the bonding agent, and (ii) forming a covalent bond between the available surface oxygen on the second surface and at least one of the hydroxyl functional groups of the bonding agent.