Efficient, biosafe and tissue adhesive hemostatic cotton gauze with controlled balance of hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity

Cotton gauze is widely used as haemostatic material for bleeding control, but its high blood absorption capacity can to cause extra blood loss. Here, the authors develop a cotton gauze whose surface is modified with a catechol compound featuring a flexible long hydrophobic alkyl chain which demonstr...

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Main Authors: Huaying He, Weikang Zhou, Jing Gao, Fan Wang, Shaobing Wang, Yan Fang, Yang Gao, Wei Chen, Wen Zhang, Yunxiang Weng, Zhengchao Wang, Haiqing Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28209-8