Rubber plunger surface texturing for friction reduction in medical syringes

Haytam KASEM; Harel SHRIKI; Lihi GANON; Michael MIZRAHI; Kareem ABD-RBO; Abraham J. DOMB

doi:10.1007/s40544-018-0227-5

Friction 2019, 7(4): 351-358 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-018-0227-5

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Rubber plunger surface texturing for friction reduction in medical syringes

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Haytam KASEM^{¹^,²}(

), Harel SHRIKI^¹, Lihi GANON^¹, Michael MIZRAHI^³, Kareem ABD-RBO^{¹^,³}, Abraham J. DOMB^³

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Azrieli College of Engineering, Jerusalem 9103501, Israel

2 Tribology Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel

3 School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem 9103501, Israel

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friction, syringe, rubber, plunger, surface texturing, medical syringes

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KASEM H, SHRIKI H, GANON L, et al. Rubber plunger surface texturing for friction reduction in medical syringes. Friction, 2019, 7(4): 351-358. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-018-0227-5

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Friction is a genuine issue in the use of many medical devices involving rubbery materials such as plungers in medical syringes. This paper presents a new direction for the reduction of friction in medical syringes based on surface texturing of the rubber plunger. The specimens were prepared by casting poly(vinylsiloxane) (PVS) rubber into a pre-fabricated negative template obtained by 3D printing. Friction tests were performed on a home-made test-rig. It was clearly shown that friction resistance can be considerably manipulated when using textured plungers.

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Rubber plunger surface texturing for friction reduction in medical syringes

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Haytam KASEM^{¹^,²}(

), Harel SHRIKI^¹, Lihi GANON^¹, Michael MIZRAHI^³, Kareem ABD-RBO^{¹^,³}, Abraham J. DOMB^³

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Azrieli College of Engineering, Jerusalem 9103501, Israel

2 Tribology Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel

3 School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem 9103501, Israel

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Keywords: friction, syringe, rubber, plunger, surface texturing, medical syringes

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Received: 16 November 2017

Revised: 27 March 2018

Accepted: 21 June 2018

Published: 10 October 2018

Issue date: August 2019

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The negative templates for the casting of textured plungers were prepared at the Center for Functional and 3D Printing, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The experimental test-rig was funded by Maof Fellowships, the Council for Higher Education of Israel (Dr. H. Kasem), and the MIA program the Ministry of Science, Technology & Space (Prof. A. Domb).

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