An interdisciplinary group of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has taken strides in the development of an underwater adhesive that has the potential for a variety of biomedical and non-biological applications. Areas such as tissue repair,dental adhesives and other surface adhesion applications—which are often required under adverse conditions, such as salty sea water and in aqueous solutions containing biological impurities—could benefit from this glue, or which replicates the adhesion strategy of the Sandcastle worm (Phragmatopoma californica),a segmented marine invertebrate commonly found along the California coast.
Source: phys.org