Comments on: It's Krazy! (glue)

It's Krazy! (glue)

tommasz — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:20:42 -0800

and holds a lot of things together. Harry Coover, an Eastman chemist, was trying to develop a plastic for gunsights. Instead he discovered cyanoacrylates otherwise known as Superglue. It's been sticking things and people together since 1952. Harry is being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio.

By: Glibaudio

Glibaudio — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:13:59 -0800

The military once attempted to use superglue as a wound closure mechanism but had trouble sterilizing it. The technology was then passed along to private industry where it came into its most familiar form. In recent years a company (the one I work for) called Ethicon (A division of Johnson&Johnson) found a way to sterilize it and now they are using it instead of sutures to leave minimal scarring and quick application, in some cases it performs much better than stitches. http://www.dermabond.com/

By: nicwolff

nicwolff — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:41:24 -0800

Dermabond's great but really expensive; I use 3M Vetbond which comes in a resealable bottle good for about 20 little cuts for about $14. It's meant for animals, but hey, aren't people animals? Here's a good article on using cyanoacrylates for wound closure.

By: karmaville

karmaville — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:10:15 -0800

Serendipity part deux. A foresenic technician let Superglue get too close to a heat source and discovered a way to lift latent prints from surfaces that before were considered too difficult with other methods.