Tuesday, May 1, 2012
EASY TO REMOVE BANDAGES post by Elizabeth Sweeny
Researchers and scientists are
currently manufacturing ways to make bandages easier to remove. According to Penn State food scientists, a process that
spins starch into fine strands could take the sting out of removing bandages,
as well as produce less expensive and more environmentally-friendly toilet
paper, napkins and other products. Bandages
that are currently on the market are often painfully removed but starch
bandages would degrade into glucose, a substance the body safely absorbs. "Starch
is easily biodegradable, so bandages made from it would, over time, be absorbed
by the body," said Kong. "So, you wouldn't have to remove them." The article is posted below. It is interesting to see how materials can
better something as simple as taking off a bandage. There is so much more in
store for the future of materials science.
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Interesting! One of our senior design teams in MSE this semester worked on developing a new kind of orthopedic cast that you can get wet and it won't fall apart! Wouldn't it be great if you could shower with a cast on?
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