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Alvin Joseph Melveger contributed to the field of biomaterials by conducting research on synthetic absorbable sutures for the applications of wound healing and closing. The main research focus behind the synthetic sutures was to understand the morphological properties of the copolymers as a result of being absorbed by the body during wound closing and healing. The sutures that were investigated consisted of both glycolide and lactide copolymer units. Due to the process of hydrolysis that occurred when the synthetic sutures were in contact with the body, the structural morphologies of the material were investigated to obtain better insight into what occurs to the sutures at the molecular level. From the results, Melveger and coworkers were able to experimentally determine that the sutures tend to favor morphological degradation at the amorphous polymeric regions, which is where the hydrolysis reactions initiate.