Barnacle-inspired polymers could present new way to design ... showed the polymer was able to remove nearly all the biofilm housing a bacteria that can cause antibiotic resistant infections, ...

The barnacle-inspired adhesive paste is slowly resorbed within the body over months, ... and bleeding at the sites of insertion can lead to infection.

A new polymer removes biofilms—mats of microbes and their exuded substances—by mimicking a fluid oozed by barnacles (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c09311). The material could ...