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Instead of using actual barnacle proteins for this test glue, it was used as a kind of chemical rubric for devising a high-pressure physical barrier. 3/7 https://t.co/5V3igVp4hZ — PolitiTweet.org

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Blood is a “contaminated fluid” because it’s not a homogeneous liquid—it’s filled with blood cells. For an adhesive to work, the goal is to get those cells out of the way. 2/7 — PolitiTweet.org

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In place of sticky protein particles, the team used grinded biocompatible adhesive sheets made from a cocktail of organic molecules, water, and chitosan—a sugar found in hard shellfish exoskeletons. Barnacles use a similar compound called chitin. 4/7 — PolitiTweet.org

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