Tough Adhesive for Wound Healing (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Tough Adhesive for Wound Healing

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A new, flexible adhesive material inspired by the glue secreted by slugs adheres to biological tissues (even when wet) without causing toxicity, and can be formed into either sheets (teal blue) or custom shapes (dark blue)

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Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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