Hydrogel is ten times more adhesive than the bioadhesives currently available in the market. скачать в хорошем качестве

Hydrogel is ten times more adhesive than the bioadhesives currently available in the market.

Hydrogel is ten times more adhesive than the bioadhesives currently available in the market. Two teams of researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL have created a material that can help heal damaged cartilages more effectively. When a cartilage is damaged, you need all the extra help you can get. It does not heal itself like other soft tissues do, so any injury that involves one requires medical intervention. That's why scientists continue to look for better methods and materials to treat cartilage-related injuries, and one technique they invented is to inject damaged areas with a hydrogel material loaded with medications or repair cells. The problem with the method is that available commercial hydrogels do not stay when the patient moves. Doctors must use membranes to hold them in place, and those membranes must be sewn into the tissue that the hydrogel is supposed to heal. The material of the EPFL researchers, however, naturally adheres to the soft subject. In fact, the new hydrogel that is 90 percent water and is composed of a double network matrix and a fiber network adheres to the tissues even more when compressed or stretched.