Patients with Ostomy bags are required to wear them 24 hours a day and change their device regularly. With conventional adhesives, leakage is commonplace, and device changes prove tricky. Zentraxa’s adhesives could be used to improve their quality of life by:

• Improving seal quality to reduce leakage

• Maintaining seal quality over time (i.e. 24 hours a day, including overnight), during normal day-to-day activity (e.g. light exercise) & in wet conditions (e.g. during bathing)

• Facilitating required weekly changes through gentle de-bonding with an aqueous de-bonding agent, administered as a simple spray

Currently, dressing adhesives must trade off firm adhesion that ensures the dressing will stay in place in challenging conditions with the need to remove the dressing at the end of the wear time without causing trauma to the skin. As a result, experiences with wound dressings & skin-mounted devices are often frustrating or painful. Zentraxa’s adhesives can improve patient experiences in wound care with:

• Improved adhesion, with our adhesives displaying up to 3x the adhesive strength of silicone alternatives, keeping devices where they need to be

• Gentle de-bonding with the application of a simple spray, facilitating atraumatic removal of on-skin dressings & devices

Our adhesives can be used to facilitate temporary adhesion & removal, for purposes including modular assembly, repair, and reuse or recycling.

Our adhesives can bond firmly in challenging conditions and can be de-bonded under ambient conditions, to ensure damage free removal of delicate components. With our unique bio-adhesive, we can selectively deactivate the adhesive qualities with a simple aqueous spray.

Our transparent adhesives open up the potential for use with optical equipment across a range of industries.

Our adhesives have thin bond line and do not interfere with a range of frequencies across the electromagnetic spectrum, allowing them to facilitate adhesion without impairing function. Our gentle de-bonding ensures no damage to system components.

Our peptides are tuneable for favourable interactions with skin and hair, and can enhance delivery of active ingredients, increasing the time actives remain in place for thanks to their improved adhesive properties. Improving “time on target” of cosmetic actives will allow us to enhance product performance lifetimes whilst also reducing their environmental impact.

Many existing products need regular reapplication due to low time on target, such as sun cream, or end up washed down the drain. By reducing the need for reapplication, personal care products can be targeted more efficiently, allowing their key ingredients to remain in place and perform as they were intended.

Modern hair care can take it’s toll on hair strands; dyes and regular shampooing can induce chemical damage, and techniques such as blow drying & hair straightening can cause heat stress that compromises your hair’s natural quality.

Our bioprocess is well-suited to synthesising complex biopolymers, and can allow us to design peptides that complement natural hair fibers. In doing so, we can create adhesive, keratin-compatible peptides that are able to strengthen & protect hair and restore damaged strands by bridging breaks.