Contact Lenses That Germs Can't Adhere To? Scientists Breed Designer Molecular Furs On Surfaces
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 09:28
in Health & Medicine
Proteins play a decisive role in both the tolerability of contact lenses and the adherence of mussels to the hulls of ships. They develop a biofilm during their initial contact with the foreign material. A new designer surface is completely resistant to the adsorption of proteins.