A Biodegradable and Biocompatible Gecko-Inspired Tissue Adhesive
From Soft-Matter
Original entry by A.J. Kumar, APPHY 225 Fall 2009
Reference
Alborz Mahdavi, Lino Ferreira, Cathryn Sundback, Jason W. Nichol, Edwin P. Chan, David J. D. Carter, Chris J. Bettinger, Siamrut Patanavanich, Loice Chignozha, Eli Ben-Joseph, Alex Galakatos, Howard Pryor, Irina Pomerantseva, Peter T. Masiakos, William Faquin, Andreas Zumbuehl, Seungpyo Hong, Jeffrey Borenstein, Joseph Vacanti, Robert Langer, and Jeffrey M. Karp. PNAS 2008 105 (7), 2307-2312.
Keywords
Chemical Cross-Link, Medical Adhesive, Nanotopography, Surgical Suture