Composite clad metal wire for improved performance
Anomet Products has introduced custom-manufactured clad metal wire that can be formulated to improve solid precious metal wire's performance characteristics, such as corrosion resistance, conductivity and biocompatibility.
Anomet Precious Metal Clad Wire can be formulated to achieve specific performance characteristics and is claimed to be functionally equivalent to solid wire at around one-tenth of the cost. Suited to high-reliability medical and electronics applications, it can achieve high conductivity, corrosion resistance, biocompatibility, radiopacity and high strength.
Incorporating 2 percent or more cladding thickness, the wire can replace solid platinum, silver, gold and gold alloy wires. Featuring a precious metal that is metallurgically bonded to a core such as copper, Kovar®, nickel-iron molybdenum, stainless steel, tantalum or titanium, the ductile wire is uniformly dense and will not crack or flake.