| 초록 |
Development of adhesives for medical purposes have remained to be a challenging subject compared with those used in the industry and the consumer products. An important property required for medical adhesives is to maintain their adhesiveness in the wet conditions such as presence of body fluid. For designing promising medicinal adhesive, catechol, the functional moiety found in mussel adhesive proteins, has been generally considered to be a key molecule that increases wet-resistant adhesion. Furthermore, a similar catechol derivative called gallol, which is found in various plants (e.g. fruits, vegetables and tea leaves), shows excellent wet-resistant adhesive properties. Herein, we developed biomedical devices utilizing adhesive property of polyphenol groups. Also, we expect that these biomaterials have potentials to various medical and pharmaceutical applications because of its unique, unprecedented properties. |
