Soy-Based Adhesive Offers Non-Toxic Strength

Feb-04-19 A soy-based adhesive based on ‘cooking chemistry’ could offer a non-toxic glue alternative for food packaging.

The glue was created at Purdue University during a study into how marine animals create natural adhesives, when Jonathan Wilker discovered that some of the components being used to recreate the glue were reacting to become adhesive. These proteins and sugars, it turns out, were undergoing the Maillard reaction, changing to create cross-linking proteins that function as an adhesive. The team used the process to develop a soy-based adhesive as strong as Gorilla Glue when used on wood, while remaining non-toxic.

Thumbnail credit: Purdue University/Jonathan Wilker- When the soy-based glue was used to adhere two pieces of wood, the wood broke apart before the glued area did.

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