Seals cardiac wounds in seconds
A fast-gelling covalent crosslinked bioglue with robust wet tissue adhesion, withstanding up to 380 mmHg blood pressure and stopping bleeding from a 6 mm cardiac penetration in pigs within 60 seconds.
Wang, Hufei · Cheng, Junyao · Feifei, Sun · Dou, Xueyu · Liu, Jianheng · Yiru, Wang · Ming, Li · Gao, Jianpeng · Xiao, Liu · Xing, Wang · Yang, Fei · Ziran, Zhu · Hong, Shen · Zhang, Licheng · Tang, Peifu · Wu, Decheng
Advanced Materials 2023
Cardiac wounds regrow significantly at 14 days
On-demand solubility, self-gelling, and rapid degradability