High‐Performance Bio‐Glue From the Berries of a Parasitic Plant
Ufuk Gürer, Jana T. Reh, Jonas Röder, Umut Günsel, Chiara Gunnella, Lisa Schöbel, Franz Hagn, Aldo R. Boccaccini, Oliver Lieleg · 2026
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Ufuk Gürer and eight colleagues report, in 2026, a strong glue made almost wholly from mistletoe berries. Most store glues come from oil, and many release harmful formaldehyde over time. Mistletoe, a plant that lives off trees, yields a sugar rich extract from its berries. Mixed with tannic and malic acid and cured with heat, and with no chemical rework, the extract becomes the glue.
The glue bonded wood, metal, and glass firmly, and even Teflon, a surface famous for shedding sticky stuff. When joints were forced apart, a fresh heat treatment woke the leftover layers so parts could be bonded again. Gürer and the team pitch the recipe as a green, repairable stand in for oil based glues.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ufuk Gürer, Jana T. Reh, Jonas Röder, Umut Günsel, Chiara Gunnella, Lisa Schöbel, Franz Hagn, Aldo R. Boccaccini, Oliver Lieleg |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |