In recent years, although China medical rubber and its products have achieved rapid development, but compared with the developed countries and domestic medical development requirements there is still a wide gap, mainly reflected backward in basic research, raw materials are incomplete, requires a lot of imports, the product quality is stable and reliable, the product technology content and low added value. But according to the relevant data forecast, to 2015 China only for human biological materials Implants Market therapeutic and cosmetic value will reach 8~10 billion, therefore, the relevant departments should seize the opportunity to accelerate the development of medical rubber and products.
Rubber research and production departments should accelerate the development of rubber rubber products need, increase the focus on high-grade medical MVQ, low protein natural latex, especially IIR XIIR, the research and production of biodegradable medical PU elastomer. The classification of desalination medical rubber and other medical polymer materials, the overall medical polymer materials to the overall development, with particular attention to the research and production of medical rubber and rubber modification of medical polymer materials, and closely cooperate with medical treatment, drug testing, animal testing, clinical trials and other aspects. Biodegradability and biocompatibility of medical rubber and its products; promote the biological function and intelligent medical rubber products; expanding the medical instruments used in the medical and pharmaceutical packaging, rubber products application, as soon as possible to do large-scale, narrow the technology gap with developed countries.
Taking silicone rubber medical products as an example, although silicone rubber plays an important role in the medical field, many problems still need to be solved. The main development direction is to improve the hydrophilic performance. Due to the hydrophobicity of silicone rubber, the product is still in the body, there is still a slight sense of foreign body, so we should focus on improving the hydrophilicity of silicone rubber. In order to solve this problem, the surface modification, such as the use of hydrophilic material on the surface of silicone rubber, or the grafting of silicone rubber by radiation method, and so on.
In addition, in recent years the rapid development of China silicone rubber production capacity, but the medical silicone rubber product grade is less, while the United States Dow Corning product amounted to more than 40 kinds of medical rubber products more than 500, Japan, the French Rhodia Inc ShinEtsu medical silicone rubber as the main development target. The two China silicone and silicone rubber is developing rapidly, there are nearly ten large and medium-sized companies, including a number of listed companies to provide raw material guarantee for the development of medical silicone rubber, so China should make use of the advantages of raw materials, foreign development experience, combined with modern medicine, to develop multi variety and multi scale medical silicone rubber and its products.