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Bandage Material helps Stop Bleeding Without Adhering to the Wound

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Promotes healing and can subsequently be easliy removed: a new kind of bandage coated with silicone and carbon nanofibres. (Visualisations: Li Z et al. Nature Communications 2019)

Researchers from ETH Zurich and the National University of Singapore have developed a new kind of bandage that helps blood to clot and doesn’t stick to the wound. This marks the first time that scientists have combined both properties in one material.

“We did not actually plan this, but that is just how science works sometimes: you start researching one thing and end up somewhere else,” says ETH Professor Dimos Poulikakos...

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