Publication: Bioinspired Underwater Bonding and Debonding on Demand
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2012-04-24
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WILEY-VCH
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).
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Bioadhesion, Polymer chemistry, Surface chemistry, Underwater adhesion
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Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2012, 51 (18), pp. 4332-4335.