Nature Communications (May 2019)

A strongly adhesive hemostatic hydrogel for the repair of arterial and heart bleeds

  • Yi Hong,
  • Feifei Zhou,
  • Yujie Hua,
  • Xianzhu Zhang,
  • Chengyao Ni,
  • Dihao Pan,
  • Yiqing Zhang,
  • Deming Jiang,
  • Long Yang,
  • Qiuning Lin,
  • Yiwei Zou,
  • Dongsheng Yu,
  • David E. Arnot,
  • Xiaohui Zou,
  • Linyong Zhu,
  • Shufang Zhang,
  • Hongwei Ouyang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10004-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Uncontrollable bleeding is a major problem in surgery and after trauma. Here the authors design a photo-reactive adhesive that mimics the composition of connective tissue and is able to stop high pressure bleeding within half a minute.