Bio-inspired Synthetic Wet Adhesives: from Permanent Bonding to Reversible Regulation

Publication date: Available online 10 December 2019Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface ScienceAuthor(s): Shuanhong Ma, Yang Wu, Feng ZhouAbstractNowadays, robust underwater adhesives products are highly demanded both in industrial and biomedical field. Meanwhile, study of the underwater adhesion mechanism of natural organisms under fluid environment is necessary, which provides inspiration for engineering adhesive materials that can be used in wet environment. Scientists are committed to discovering the unique adhesion mechanisms of proteins adhesives for natural organisms. Especially, recent understanding of wet adhesion mechanisms provides designable inspiration for developing novel synthetic underwater adhesives with high performance by employing Dopa-based and coacervate-enabled strategies. Although pursuing robust interface bonding in these years, controlling the wet adhesion state with reversible/switchable feature is the latest goal for developing intelligent biomimetic adhesives, which implies important applications in multiple fields.
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - Category: Chemistry Source Type: research