Review of virtual.COMPAMED 2020

Final Press Report

virtual.MEDICA + virtual.COMPAMED win audiences over with their high degree of international resonance

They provided important stimuli for the healthcare economy and there is keen anticipation for the reunion in Düsseldorf in 2021

For the first time in the history of MEDICA, the world-leading medical trade fair, and the industry’s number one platform for the suppliers of the medical technology industry, COMPAMED, held from 16 to 19 November 2020, took place entirely online due to the pandemic - but still won over their audiences due to their high degree of international resonance in this format too, as virtual.MEDICA and virtual.COMPAMED. Despite a very short registration period, a total of over 1,500 exhibitors took part, hailing from 63 nations. They displayed a huge variety of innovative products, amounting to over 18,300 items, in their online showrooms, and presented live programmes for the healthcare community in over 100 web sessions, which hosted 300 participants at their peak. The community showed avid interest in their droves: Over 45,000 professional visitors (unique users) from 169 nations used the virtual offers and generated 405,000 page impressions. International online visitors to the event made up 78% of the attendees.

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Antiferromagnets: "Our discovery is real and proven"

The Hall effect – discovered in 19th century – refers to a deflection of electrons from straight trajectories in an applied magnetic field. When the material is ferromagnetic, this deflection is much stronger and is present even without the external magnetic field. These transverse electronic states are moving without dissipation, so the electrons do not lose energy.

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The virtual.COMPAMED: "Definitely a different experience"

Corona does not stop at the trade fair business, so that COMPAMED also had to take place virtually this year. Dr. Thomas Klein is the director of the Munich-based company Optores, which manufactures optical coherence tomographs. He gave a presentation on his products at virtual.COMPAMED and looks back once again on the trade fair of a somewhat different kind.

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Preview of the virtual.COMPAMED 2020

The corona pandemic has also had an impact on COMPAMED, so that this year for the first time it will take place only virtually. However, this does not prevent us from putting together exciting topics so that virtual.COMPAMED is at least as informative as an on-site trade fair!

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Radiation sterilization

Germ-free medical devices fast and safe

Many medical devices must be sterilized before they can be put into circulation. Beta or gamma radiation is often suitable for this purpose. COMPAMED-tradefair.com looked around at the company BGS in Wiehl.

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Image: Two images in comparison. On the left, two very pixelated yellow dots on a blue background. On the right the same blue background with clearly outlined ye; Copyright: Berkeley Lab and Columbia

Avalanching nanoparticles break barriers to imaging cells in real time

Study co-led by Berkeley Lab and Columbia Engineering could lead to simple, high-resolution bioimaging in real time by overcoming a fundamental property of light.

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Flashing plastic ash completes recycling

Pyrolyzed plastic ash is worthless, but perhaps not for long. Rice University scientists have turned their attention to Joule heating of the material, a byproduct of plastic recycling processes. A strong jolt of energy flashes it into graphene.

Image: Nanosheet-Based Electronics; Copyright: Reprinted (adapted) with permission from ACS Nano 14, 15216 (2020). Copyright 2020 American Chemical Society

Nanosheet-based electronics could be one drop away

Scientists at Japan's Nagoya University and the National Institute for Materials Science have found that a simple one-drop approach is cheaper and faster for tiling functional nanosheets together in a single layer. If the process, described in the journal ACS Nano, can be scaled up, it could advance development of next-generation oxide electronics.

Image: A bottle with an orange powder. The powder can be seen next to the bottle on a table; Copyright: Dr. Josep Cornellà

New class of stable, easy-to-handle nickel complexes

60 years after the discovery of the nickel effect at the MPI for Coal Research, Josep Cornellà's team at the Mülheim Institute has now developed nickel-stilbene complexes that are easy to produce and stable. The components are attracting a great deal of attention from users, and licensing is proceeding extremely successfully.

Image: three different layer. The first looks like marble, the second like wood and the third like a grey fabric; Copyright: American Chemical Society (ACS)

Atomic-scale nanowires can now be produced at scale

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a way to make self-assembled nanowires of transition metal chalcogenides at scale using chemical vapor deposition. By changing the substrate where the wires form, they can tune how these wires are arranged, from aligned configurations of atomically thin sheets to random networks of bundles.

Image: Photo of the microprocessor, consisting of many fine lines, somewhat reminiscent of a drawn house; Copyright: Yokohama National University

Extremely energy efficient microprocessor developed using superconductors

Researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan have developed a prototype microprocessor using superconductor devices that are about 80 times more energy efficient than the state-of-the-art semiconductor devices found in the microprocessors of today's high-performance computing systems.

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See live cells with 7 times greater sensitivity using new microscopy technique

Experts in optical physics have developed a new way to see inside living cells in greater detail using existing microscopy technology and without needing to add stains or fluorescent dyes.

Image: image of many small stopwatches underneath a magnifying glas; Copyright: Tokushima University

A new method for fluorescence microscopy

Scientists develop a fluorescence "lifetime" microscopy technique that uses frequency combs and no mechanical parts to observe dynamic biological phenomena.

Image: a golden circle and a red-blue stripe in front of a blue ground that looks like the night sky; Copyright: QuEST Lab, Stevens Institute of Technology

Stevens creates entangled photons 100 times more efficiently than previously possible

Super-fast quantum computers and communication devices could revolutionize countless aspects of our lives – but first, researchers need a fast, efficient source of the entangled pairs of photons such systems use to transmit and manipulate information.

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A new method for the functionalization of graphene

An international research team of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has demonstrated a novel process to modify the structure and properties of graphene, a one atom thick carbon. This chemical reaction, known as photocycloaddition, modifies the bonds between atoms using ultraviolet light.

Image: five researchers are sitting around a table and looking at a laptop; Copyright: Marlayna Demond for UMBC

UMBC team reveals possibilities of new one-atom-thick materials

New computational research makes reliable predictions about desirable properties of new 2D materials, saving experimental researchers time and money and foreshadowing 'tunable' materials for particular applications.

Image: three scientists standing in a laboratory, one of them is raising a test tube towards the camera; Copyright: National University of Singapore

Wireless, ultra-thin and battery-free strain sensors that are 10 times more sensitive

A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Assistant Professor Chen Po-Yen, has taken the first step towards improving the safety and precision of industrial robotic arms by developing a new range of nanomaterial strain sensors that are 10 times more sensitive when measuring minute movements, compared to existing technology.

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3D printers may be toxic for humans

Risk researchers are asking new questions about the health and safety implications and how to mitigate any potential health risks to users of 3D printers and consumers of products manufactured with this emerging technology, especially children.

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Finding a better way to design metal alloys

System uses machine learning to analyze boundaries between crystal grains, allowing for selection of desired properties in a new metal.

Image: a graphic of the chance of the Photoluminescence change of dual-color-emissive carbon dots; Copyright: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Researchers control multiple wavelengths of light from a single source

KAIST researchers have synthesized a collection of nanoparticles, known as carbon dots, capable of emitting multiple wavelengths of light from a single particle. Additionally, the team discovered that the dispersion of the carbon dots, or the interparticle distance between each dot, influences the properties of the light the carbon dots emit.

Image: self-powered, stretchable system on an arm; Copyright: Penn State College of Engineering

Stretchable micro-supercapacitors to self-power wearables

A stretchable system that can harvest energy from human breathing and motion for use in wearable health-monitoring devices may be possible, according to an international team of researchers, led by Huanyu "Larry" Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in Penn State's Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics.

Image: graphic of a human eye behind electrodes ; Copyright: PantherMedia / Kheng Ho Toh

Optical sensor mimics human eye

Researchers at Oregon State University are making key advances with a new type of optical sensor that more closely mimics the human eye's ability to perceive changes in its visual field.

Image: graphical representation of the vaccination process and its mode of action ; Copyright: University of Illinois

Paper-based electrochemical sensor can detect COVID-19 in less than five minutes

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the world, testing remains a key strategy for tracking and containing the virus. Bioengineering graduate student, Maha Alafeef, has co-developed a rapid, ultrasensitive test using a paper-based electrochemical sensor that can detect the presence of the virus in less than five minutes.

Image: hand and foot in different pictures ; Copyright: SPIE

AI-based 'OxyGAN': method to measure tissue oxygen levels

New AI-based algorithm processes tissue oxygenation data faster and more accurately than conventional techniques.

Image: testing device ; Copyright: Seokheun "Sean" Choi

New device offers faster way to detect antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Bacterial infections have become one of the biggest health problems worldwide, and a recent study shows that COVID-19 patients have a much greater chance of acquiring secondary bacterial infections, which significantly increases the mortality rate.

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All Scalpels to the OR, Please!

Fraunhofer IPK and Charité CFM Facility Management GmbH are developing an AI-based system to automatically check trays of surgical instruments for completeness.

Image: a hand holding a transparent piece of plastic with silver stripes on it ; Copyright: 2020 KAUST

Electronic skin has a strong future stretching ahead

A material that mimics human skin in strength, stretchability and sensitivity could be used to collect biological data in real time. Electronic skin, or e-skin, may play an important role in next-generation prosthetics, personalized medicine, soft robotics and artificial intelligence.

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Miniscule robots of metal and plastic

Robots so tiny that they can manoeuvre through our blood vessels and deliver medications to certain points in the body - researchers have been pursuing this goal for years. Now, scientists at ETH Zurich have succeeded for the first time in building such "micromachines" out of metal and plastic, in which these two materials are interlocked as closely as links in a chain.

Image: man holding the nebuliser in his hand ; Copyright: RMIT University

Sound waves power new advances in drug delivery and smart materials

Pioneering research shows how high-frequency sound waves can help build smart materials, new nanoparticles & deliver drugs to the lungs for painless, needle-free vaccinations.

Image: hand in glove holding the contact lense ; Copyright: Khademhosseini Lab

Contact lenses for diagnostic and therapeutic use

Specially engineered contact lenses use tears to monitor patient health.

Brandon Medical launches interactive virtual tour and live demonstration platforms

Brandon Medical launches interactive virtual tour and live demonstration platforms of equipment package for operating rooms and critical care areas in order to support hospitals to return to elective...

Edmund Optics Acquires Quality Thin Films, Inc.; Strengthens Position as Laser Optics Manufacturer

Edmund Optics®, the premier provider of optical and imaging components, announced today that it has acquired Quality Thin Films, Inc. (QTF). QTF, located outside of Tampa, Florida, offers a wide range...

Aspen Laser Systems Named to the Inc. 5000 List of The Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Inc. Magazine revealed this week that Aspen Laser Systems has been selected for its Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States.

Westlake Global Compounds Announces Entity Name Changes - Resilia S.r.l. becomes Westlake Compounds Italy S.r.l.

As you may know, Westlake Chemical Corporation completed the acquisition of NAKAN (IVY GROUP HOLDING) in January 2019. As a result, all NAKAN entities became Westlake companies. Today, we are pleased...

Hybrisan install new electrospinning production line

Hybrisan, the South Wales based advanced antimicrobial specialists, have installed a new Elmarco electrospinning production line to increase the production of PPE equipment, while also accelerating...

Double Medical Won The Xiamen Top Ten New Economic Influential Enterprises

On September 8, 2020, under the guidance of the Organization Department of the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee, the Xiamen Torch High-tech Zone Management Committee, the Municipal High-level Talent...

Power Package vor ventilators

In order to drive new product developments in the shortest possible time, RRC power solutions now offers an immediately available solution for the necessary portable power supply: the Power-Package...

NEW Healthcare plant in Mexico

Plastiflex opens a new Health Care Manufacturing room in Tijuana (Mexico) Plastiflex group, one of the world biggest producers of plastic flexible tubes and hoses with headquarters in Belgium...

Decentralized monitoring of COVID-19 patients: M3Infekt project launched

Fraunhofer ENAS contributes its expertise on continuously tunable Fabry-Pérot filter for a monitoring system of COVID-19 patients within the Fraunhofer cluster project M3Infekt. The cluster project...

The 26th edition of three-day Medical Fair India 2020, beginning 5th March concluded on 7th March,2020 at Bombay Convention and Exhibition Centre in Mumbai.

26th edition of Medical Fair India inaugurated in Mumbai; COVID 19 discussed amongst other topics on Digital Innovations and New smart ways of delivering healthcare at the Mumbai Exhibition Centre...

SteriPack Group announces global rollout of sterile swabs to help combat Covid-19

SteriPack Group rapidly deploys equipment, expertise and facilities to meet critical need for sterile swabs, diagnostic products and personal protective equipment across their global manufacturing...

Shawpak rising to the challenge in the global fight against COVID-19

As a supplier of machines dedicated to medical packaging and as part of the Riverside Medical Packaging group shawpak have been uniquely positioned to adapt our technology to design and build PPE...

Face Shield Machines to manufacture 1 1/2 million shields per month!

Riverside Medical Packaging Company Ltd were given the opportunity and challenge of producing over 6 million face shields between August and December 2020 to meet small and large customer orders. &#...

Two Kimlas for Shawpak Send the Competitors Packing

Research and development has been at the forefront of Riverside Medical’s cutting-edge work since 1978. Initially specialising in bespoke medical packaging, the company has grown, and they now...

Sandvik Materials Technology Expands to Tucson, Arizona

Second U.S. Location to Manufacture Fine Medical Wire and Components. Sandvik Materials Technology, a world-leading developer and manufacturer of advanced stainless steels and special alloys,...

ALVALUX RECEIVES ISO13485 CERTIFICATION

Alvalux Medical, a Belgian medtech company, announced today that it has achieved ISO 13485:2016 / EN ISO 13485:2016 Certification, the internationally recognized quality standard designed to ensure...

Oxygen equipment pioneer AirSep, a division of CAIRE Inc., at the forefront in the global fight against COVID-19

Since the outbreak of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, AirSep Corporation, a division of CAIRE Inc., has seen a higher demand in oxygen generators globally particularly in Russia and the Ukraine.

Interview with Richard Wiens, Director, Strategic Supply, Nordion on Cobalt Supply

Nordion is one of the pioneers in using Cobalt-60 for gamma sterilization. The company has been building irradiators and shipping Cobalt sources around the world for more than 50 years and continues...

Sotera Health’s Sterigenics Announces Acquisition of Iotron Industries

Additional Electron Beam capacity enhances Sterigenics’ global leadership in sterilization solutions CLEVELAND, Ohio – August 3, 2020 – Sotera Health, the world’s leading,...

USAID FUNDS A NW50 UNIT IN TUNISIE

Newster proud to announce Dasri Sterile located in El Krib Tunisie has been awarded funds from USAID for a NW50 unit to increase it's treatment capacity to meet the large increase in COVID-19...

Super Brush Receives ISO 13485:2016 Certification

Springfield, MA – Super Brush LLC. A manufacturing leader in foam swabs and applicators announced today that the company has earned ISO 13485:2016 certification for its quality management system. ISO...

Iceni Diagnostics appoint BBI to produce their Covid-19/Influenza test

Original article published on 10/10/2020 Iceni Diagnostics has appointed BBI Solutions to generate clinical trial batches for their new, rapid SARS-COV-2/Influenza virus detection test. The test...

Teleflex Medical OEM Announces Expansion of Georgia Facility To Meet Growing Demand For Its Products

Teleflex Medical OEM, a leading manufacturer of micro-diameter tubing, specialty wire, and devices used throughout the healthcare industry, is announcing an expansion to its Trenton, Georgia facility.

Teleflex Medical OEM Strengthens Its Catheter Capabilities by Acquiring HPC Medical Products

Teleflex Medical OEM, a global leader in custom extrusion and complex catheters, recently announced the acquisition of HPC Medical Products [HPC]), a leader in medical tubing and wire components .

Teleflex Medical OEM Opens Two EPIC Medtec® Centers to Accelerate Device Innovation

Teleflex Medical OEM, a leading provider of medical device development and manufacturing services, announces two state-of-the-art EPIC Medtec® Centers located in Mansfield, Massachusetts and Maple...

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Final Press Report

virtual.MEDICA + virtual.COMPAMED win audiences over with their high degree of international resonance

They provided important stimuli for the healthcare economy and there is keen anticipation for the reunion in Düsseldorf in 2021

Apply online now as an exhibitor of COMPAMED 2021 in Düsseldorf / Germany

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COMPAMED talks about...

Antiferromagnets: "Our discovery is real and proven"

COMPAMED talks about...

The virtual.COMPAMED: "Definitely a different experience"

Special

Preview of the virtual.COMPAMED 2020

Radiation sterilization

Germ-free medical devices fast and safe

Avalanching nanoparticles break barriers to imaging cells in real time

Flashing plastic ash completes recycling

Nanosheet-based electronics could be one drop away

New class of stable, easy-to-handle nickel complexes

Atomic-scale nanowires can now be produced at scale

Extremely energy efficient microprocessor developed using superconductors

See live cells with 7 times greater sensitivity using new microscopy technique

A new method for fluorescence microscopy

Stevens creates entangled photons 100 times more efficiently than previously possible

A new method for the functionalization of graphene

UMBC team reveals possibilities of new one-atom-thick materials

Wireless, ultra-thin and battery-free strain sensors that are 10 times more sensitive

3D printers may be toxic for humans

Finding a better way to design metal alloys

Researchers control multiple wavelengths of light from a single source​

Stretchable micro-supercapacitors to self-power wearables

Optical sensor mimics human eye

Paper-based electrochemical sensor can detect COVID-19 in less than five minutes

AI-based 'OxyGAN': method to measure tissue oxygen levels

New device offers faster way to detect antibiotic-resistant bacteria

All Scalpels to the OR, Please!

Electronic skin has a strong future stretching ahead

Miniscule robots of metal and plastic

Sound waves power new advances in drug delivery and smart materials

Contact lenses for diagnostic and therapeutic use

Brandon Medical launches interactive virtual tour and live demonstration platforms

Edmund Optics Acquires Quality Thin Films, Inc.; Strengthens Position as Laser Optics Manufacturer

Aspen Laser Systems Named to the Inc. 5000 List of The Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Westlake Global Compounds Announces Entity Name Changes - Resilia S.r.l. becomes Westlake Compounds Italy S.r.l.

Hybrisan install new electrospinning production line

Double Medical Won The Xiamen Top Ten New Economic Influential Enterprises

Power Package vor ventilators

NEW Healthcare plant in Mexico

Decentralized monitoring of COVID-19 patients: M3Infekt project launched

The 26th edition of three-day Medical Fair India 2020, beginning 5th March concluded on 7th March,2020 at Bombay Convention and Exhibition Centre in Mumbai.

SteriPack Group announces global rollout of sterile swabs to help combat Covid-19

Shawpak rising to the challenge in the global fight against COVID-19

Face Shield Machines to manufacture 1 1/2 million shields per month!

Two Kimlas for Shawpak Send the Competitors Packing

Sandvik Materials Technology Expands to Tucson, Arizona

ALVALUX RECEIVES ISO13485 CERTIFICATION

Oxygen equipment pioneer AirSep, a division of CAIRE Inc., at the forefront in the global fight against COVID-19

Interview with Richard Wiens, Director, Strategic Supply, Nordion on Cobalt Supply

Sotera Health’s Sterigenics Announces Acquisition of Iotron Industries

USAID FUNDS A NW50 UNIT IN TUNISIE

Super Brush Receives ISO 13485:2016 Certification

Iceni Diagnostics appoint BBI to produce their Covid-19/Influenza test

Teleflex Medical OEM Announces Expansion of Georgia Facility To Meet Growing Demand For Its Products

Teleflex Medical OEM Strengthens Its Catheter Capabilities by Acquiring HPC Medical Products

Teleflex Medical OEM Opens Two EPIC Medtec® Centers to Accelerate Device Innovation

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