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Advancing pressure-sensitive adhesives for internal wound closure

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Pressure-sensitive adhesives are familiar household items spanning applications in everyday repair, office supplies and topical wound care. Through innovations in material and polymer science, pressure-sensitive adhesives will advance from current commodity to new specialty materials with resulting new clinical uses and improved patient care.

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Fig. 1: Design requirements for internal medical pressure-sensitive adhesives.

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The authors’ pressure-sensitive adhesive research is supported in part by NIH (F31HL163917 to D.M.F. and R01HL159644 to M.W.G. and Y.L.C.), Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital.

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    Danielle M. Fitzgerald & Mark W. Grinstaff

  2. Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Yolonda L. Colson

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Fitzgerald, D.M., Colson, Y.L. & Grinstaff, M.W. Advancing pressure-sensitive adhesives for internal wound closure. Nat Rev Mater 8, 3–5 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-022-00516-y

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