CaproGlu : multifunctional tissue adhesive platform

• Main Authors: Djordjevic, Ivan, Pokholenko, Oleksandr, Shah, Ankur Harish, Wicaksono, Gautama, Blancafort, Lluis, Hanna, John V., Page, Samuel J., Nanda, Himansu Sekhar, Ong, Chee Bing, Chung, Sze Ryn, Chin, Andrew Yuan Hui, McGrouther, Duncan, Choudhury, Muntasir Mannan, Li, Fang, Teo, Jonathan Shunming, Lee, Lui Shiong, Steele, Terry W. J.
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials; Engineering::Bioengineering; Polycaprolactone; Bioadhesive
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144259
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Driven by the clinical need for a strong tissue adhesive with elastomeric material properties, a departure from legacy crosslinking chemistries was sought as a multipurpose platform for tissue mending. A fresh approach to bonding wet substrates has yielded a synthetic biomaterial that overcomes the...