Post by williamplayer on Jan 7, 2014 12:45:19 GMT
Scientists on Verge of Creating Super Bandage that Shields from Infection
One of the big dangers of open wounds is infection — when bacteria get in and generally make a bad situation a lot worse. Now a group of Chinese scientists have figured out a way to make bandages with built-in bacteria barriers.
The key is the carbon-based wonder material graphene. Graphene is essentially thin sheets of carbon, each just an atom thick. First created in 2004, graphene could make possible everything from better batteries to low-cost lighting. In the course of their research, the scientists crafted a strip of graphene paper and tried to colonize bacteria on it. Turns out the bacteria had trouble getting a solid footing on the graphene, but human cells were pretty much unaffected.
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One of the big dangers of open wounds is infection — when bacteria get in and generally make a bad situation a lot worse. Now a group of Chinese scientists have figured out a way to make bandages with built-in bacteria barriers.
The key is the carbon-based wonder material graphene. Graphene is essentially thin sheets of carbon, each just an atom thick. First created in 2004, graphene could make possible everything from better batteries to low-cost lighting. In the course of their research, the scientists crafted a strip of graphene paper and tried to colonize bacteria on it. Turns out the bacteria had trouble getting a solid footing on the graphene, but human cells were pretty much unaffected.
Read Full Article: www.dvice.com/archives/2010/07/scientists_on_v.php