Sintx expands silicon nitride platform into hybrid CFR-PEKK trauma plates

SINTX Technologies (SINT) announced the publication of a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. The study validates the use of silicon nitride surface coatings on carbon fiber-reinforced polyetherketoneketone, CFR-PEKK, trauma plates-marking a significant expansion of SINTX’s biomaterial platform into additively-manufactured polymer-carbon-ceramic constructs. The research, supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIAMS, of the National Institutes of Health, NIH, was conducted in partnership with Prof. Steven Kurtz’s Implant Research Center at Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems.