Liquid metal may help heal severed nerves

• Autores: Lisa Grossman
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2968, 2014, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Jing Liu at Tsinghua University in Beijing China and his colleagues wondered if liquid metal could help signals pass through a graft while a damaged nerve healed. They used an alloy of gallium, indium and selenium. which is a good electrical conductor. The alloy is liquid at room temperature so it can be removed with syringe when no longer needed. The team tested the alloy on the sciatic nerves of 10 bullfrogs. The nerves reconnected with liquid metal conducted electrical signals about as well as a healthy nerve, and several orders of magnitude better than nerves reconnected with Ringer's solution