Development of Aqueous Emulsion Adhesive Tape for Surgical Application.

Abstract

Surgical tape used in the medical applications generally has been contained organic solvents and monomers residue in the adhesive. Most amounts of the organic solvents have been removed from adhesive by modified the production process.However, non-reactive monomers could not removed from adhesive under conventional synthetic process. A lot of skin irritations which caused to nonreactive residue in adhesive have been reported in medical application. Therefore, we have focused on aqueous emulsion adhesive without containing organic solvent and without occuring monomer residue in adhesive.However, one of the weak point of emulsion adhesive is easily peel out by insensible water loss. Therefore, to obtain the high performances against water resistance property, we have investigated particle diameter of micelle as well as various species of monomer incorporated inadhesive.As a result, we have developed new emulsion adhesive, which have high performance regarding peel strength by using methyl acrylate monomer under sauna condition.