Producen la película quirúrgica más delgada del mundo (60nm) con quitosana y alginato de sodio

TO GO WITH AFP DOUNIAMAG STORY Japan’s Waseda University researcher Toshinori Fujie displays the ultra thin flexible surgical sheet, made of chitosan from crab shell and sodium alginate from kelp at his laboratory in Tokyo on July 8, 2009. Waseda’s professor Shinji Takeoka and his team developed the world’s thinest adhesive sheet, in thickness of 60-nanometer, and they reported to use the nanosheets for wound dressing materials to repair the inner pleura of wounded dogs without complication. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)