Adhesives in Living

Tissue adhesives in otorhinolaryngology

The development of medical tissue adhesives has a long history without finding an all-purpose tissue adhesive for clinical daily routine. This is caused by the specific demands which are made on a tissue adhesive, and the different areas of application. In otorhinolaryngology, on the one hand, this is the mucosal environment as well as the application on bones, cartilage and periphery nerves. O...

Innovation in Medical Adhesives

Medical tapes and dressings are commonly used in hospitals to cover wounds and secure dressings or devices on patients’ skin. Repeated application and removal of medical adhesives may result in trauma to skin causing severe patient discomfort as well as expensive interventions. In this paper I will describe a new silicone-based medical adhesive that was designed to be gentle to sensitive skin w...

Conductive Adhesives

S ince the advent of through-hole printed wiring boards in the 1950s, surface-mount technology has advanced through chip capacitors and resistors to high-density multilayer hybrids and printed circuit boards. Throughout this 40-year span, solder paste has been the accepted technology for component attach.' The present trend toward fine-pitch resolution ( t0.020") and multilayer constructions of...

Editorial: What's next after "universal" adhesives, "bioactive" adhesives?

Drying adhesives

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