Bio Tribometer

Main Features:

• Custom Motions
• Real Components or Sample Coupons
• In-line Optical Profilometer
• Wear, Friction, Adhesion, Fretting

The need to optimize and understand the friction of biomaterials is becoming increasingly important due to the wide range of new applications in therapy, rehabilitation, healthcare, biomedicine, cosmetics, and personal care, as well as the integration of soft materials with customized haptics.

Rtec Instruments MFT series tribometers comes with several interchangable test modules.  This allows simulation of a vast number of bio  and human applications.

What is A Biotribometer?

Biological tribosystems differ significantly in many aspects from mechanical tribo­systems, e.g. stiffness, range of coefficient of friction down to 10^-5 (super-lubricity), lower Hertzian contact stresses, low sliding speed, etc.), which require specific and adapted tribometers for meaningful and transferable results.

Biotribometers are biotribology instruments that study friction and wear of biomaterials in a large range of biological conditions. They are critical in the research and development of biomedical products and devices systems, such as hip joints, catheter, or contact lenses, but also for haptics of touchscreen devices and cosmetics. Rtec Instruments biotribometers provide the data and versatility to test all types of biotribology tests.