Bioinspired Underwater Bonding and Debonding on Demand Articles

authors

Shafiq, Zahid
Cui, Jiaxi
Pastor-Pérez, Lourdes
SAN MIGUEL ARNANZ, VERONICA
Gropeanu, Radu A.
Serrano, Cristina
del Campo, Aránzazu

published in

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION Journal

publication date

March 2012

start page

4332

end page

4335

issue

18

volume

51

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201108629

full text

http://hdl.handle.net/10016/24541

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1433-7851

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

1521-3773

abstract

Mussel glue: Bioinspired underwater chemical bonding with the possibility of phototriggered debonding is reported. A four-arm star-poly(ethyleneglycol) end-functionalized by nitrodopamine was synthesized. The nitrodopamine offered the reactivity of catechol and the chemistry of the photocleavable o-nitrophenyl ethyl group (see picture).

subjects

Chemistry
Materials science and engineering

keywords

bioadhesion; polymer chemistry; surface chemistry; underwater adhesion