So we have all used glues and even what we fondly call as ‘super glues’. But what was your best feat achieved by the glue? It fixed your broken cup ? May be it fixed your switch board, but listen to what a team of Swedish researchers claims to have done. They have made a glue that fixes your broken bones ! And the best part is that it only takes five minutes.
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Currently the researchers have done experiments on lab rats in which the bones were fixed in less than 5 minutes. This process of reuniting together is called as “bonding”. The researchers from KTH Royal Insituite of Technology in Stockholm claims that this adhesive can fix human broken bones. If this experiment takes off,there can be no better news for people suffering from Osteoporosis- a condition that makes your bones vulnerable to fractures. The results of the experiment where the glue helped rats to fix it’s broken bones was published in the magazine ‘Advanced Functional Materials’. The authors, in their introduction wrote “this has the potential to unlock a new era of new high?performance biomedical TEC adhesives with unmet bio-compatibility”
The glue works on the same principle as in dentistry – Thiolene-coupling(TEC)in which the bond hardenes and stay strong even when exposed to Water and oxygen. If this really translates in to a prdouct that we can all have access to, we might have to call it the super – ‘super glue’ !
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