稿源：2013-10-03/民視新聞網
A team of researchers from National Chung Hsing University has developed a new adhesive bandage that could change the way doctors dress wounds. The material, which was inspired by cockroaches, grips well, peels off easily, is highly breathable and can even be reused.
Many medical adhesive patches are extremely sticky and hard to peel off, taking skin and skin hairs with them.
Stick this new polysiloxane patch on your forehead and it won’t fall off. But it peels off without any resistance.
Chang Cheng-chung
National Chung Hsing University Professor
When you’re dealing with a burn wound or an incision wound after an operation, the skin has already been injured. If you use a typical adhesive on those wounds and pull it off, skin that does not easily heal will be hurt again. This new patch is extremely helpful in those cases.
The research team said it was inspired by cockroaches. The pests secrete a grease that creates a type of surface adhesion, called adsorption, that gives them more grip when they crawl across floors or climb sloped surfaces. The polysiloxane material developed by the researchers has little microscopic hair-like protrusions, called cilium, that create adhesion similar to that created by cockroaches.
Chang Cheng-chung
National Chung Hsing University Professor
Just like a cockroach’s legs, this material also automatically secretes a substance, in this case medicine.
The material’s strong adhesive characteristics also make it useful as a hook. Two cubic centimeters of the material can hold up a 2-kilo object. But for now, doctors, and patients, may be most eager to give it a try.
小強貼布
一般的藥布貼久了，不但很難撕也容易起藥疹，中興大學的研究團隊，從蟑螂爬牆的原理得到靈感，研發出一種貼布，利用微奈米的原理，貼在皮膚上，好貼、好撕，又很透氣，即使重複使用，也都能保持很好的吸附性。
一般的傳統貼布，上面的黏膠非常的黏，撕下來的時候，皮膚毛髮都被往上拉扯。
新材質的"聚矽氧膠"貼布，則是貼在額頭怎麼動也不會掉，而且輕輕鬆鬆就可以撕下來。
[[中興大學生醫研究所副教授 張建忠]]
尤其是在燒燙傷、手術後的美容膠，皮膚都已經受傷了，如果你再把它拉起來的話，不容易痊癒的表皮又被破壞了，所以這時候，這個膠布就非常適合。
研究團隊表示，蟑螂的腳會分泌一種微米油脂，液體表面張力的毛細作用，會增加蟑螂的腳墊與爬行表面的黏度。這種"聚矽氧膠"，上面有非常多的奈米纖毛，原理就跟蟑螂爬牆壁同樣道理。
[[中興大學生醫研究所副教授 張建忠]]
它這個材質會自動分泌藥物，跟蟑螂的腳是一樣的。
不只當貼布，拿來當掛鉤，吸附性也很強，兩平方公分的膠布，可以掛到兩公斤重。 不過，現在最想嘗試這種貼布的，應該會是醫師和病患。
