TY - JOUR
T1 - Bio-inspired reversible underwater adhesive
AU - Zhao, Yanhua
AU - Wu, Yang
AU - Wang, Liang
AU - Zhang, Manman
AU - Chen, Xuan
AU - Liu, Minjie
AU - Fan, Jun
AU - Liu, Junqiu
AU - Zhou, Feng
AU - Wang, Zuankai
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful for financial support from Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (no. 11275216 and no.11213915), National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 51475401, no. 21434009, and no. 51605470), City University of Hong Kong (no. 9667139 and no. 9360140), Shenzhen Scientific and Innovation Bureau (no. JCYJ2017041314141208098), National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC1100401), and Chinese Academy of Sciences (no. QYZDY-SSW-JSC013).
Funding Information:
We are grateful for financial support from Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (no. 11275216 and no.11213915), National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 51475401, no. 21434009, and no. 51605470), City University of Hong Kong (no. 9667139 and no. 9360140), Shenzhen Scientific and Innovation Bureau (no. JCYJ2017041314141208098), National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC1100401), and Chinese Academy of Sciences (no. QYZDY-SSWJSC013).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s).
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - The design of smart surfaces with switchable adhesive properties in a wet environment has remained a challenge in adhesion science and materials engineering. Despite intense demands in various industrial applications and exciting progress in mimicking the remarkable wet adhesion through the delicate control of catechol chemistry, polyelectrolyte complex, and supramolecular architectures, the full recapitulation of nature's dynamic function is limited. Here, we show a facile approach to synthesize bioinspired adhesive, which entails the reversible, tunable, and fast regulation of the wet adhesion on diverse surfaces. The smart wet adhesive takes advantage of the host-guest molecular interaction and the adhesive nature of catechol chemistry, as well as the responsive polymer, allowing for screening and activation of the interfacial interaction simply by a local temperature trigger in an on-demand manner. Our work opens up an avenue for the rational design of bioinspired adhesives with performances even beyond nature.
AB - The design of smart surfaces with switchable adhesive properties in a wet environment has remained a challenge in adhesion science and materials engineering. Despite intense demands in various industrial applications and exciting progress in mimicking the remarkable wet adhesion through the delicate control of catechol chemistry, polyelectrolyte complex, and supramolecular architectures, the full recapitulation of nature's dynamic function is limited. Here, we show a facile approach to synthesize bioinspired adhesive, which entails the reversible, tunable, and fast regulation of the wet adhesion on diverse surfaces. The smart wet adhesive takes advantage of the host-guest molecular interaction and the adhesive nature of catechol chemistry, as well as the responsive polymer, allowing for screening and activation of the interfacial interaction simply by a local temperature trigger in an on-demand manner. Our work opens up an avenue for the rational design of bioinspired adhesives with performances even beyond nature.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-017-02387-2
DO - 10.1038/s41467-017-02387-2
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 29263405
AN - SCOPUS:85038842351
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 8
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 2218
ER -