Slug Mucus Inspires New Type of Surgical Glue to Close Wounds (5 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Slug Mucus Inspires New Type of Surgical Glue to Close Wounds (5 of 8)

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A tough adhesive applied onto a pig heart to show superior adhesion and stretchability performance. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 28, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Li at John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Tough adhesives for diverse wet surfaces."

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Jianya Li, Adam D. Celiz, David J. Mooney

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