The tape integrates adhesive technology with a silicone base to offer both securement and gentleness. Those are important benefits for wound care patients. "We see medical tape touch almost every ...

Dr Xuanhe Zhao, an engineer who helped create the tape, said: 'There are over 230 million major surgeries all around the world per year. 'Many of them require sutures to close the wound, which can ...

While adhesive wound dressings are common on skin, the wet environments inside the body are a trickier place to apply them. Zhao and his colleagues designed their dressing to work like duct tape ...