If you fracture your arm, chances are you will need surgery to install pins and you will have a plaster cast for days. Well not for long the Manitoban reports on a new DARPA project where composites can help a human heal.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is always on the search for better technologies to help enable and protect the modern war fighter. In this instance, DARPA is soliciting the development of composite putty that can be used to internally heal a fracture.
Essentially, instead of risking infection during surgery a doctor could inject composite putty that would act like super-glue and bond the fracture in place. The putty would eventually be absorbed into body as the bone heals, just another example of the awesome capabilities of composite materials.
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