Multimodal Underwater Adhesion Using Self-assembled Dopa-bearing ABA Triblock Copolymer Networks.

ABSTRACT: Self-assembled mechanically robust Dopa-bearing triblock copolymer networks improve underwater adhesion through both energy dissipation and interfacial bonding. Polymer networks that incorporate energy dissipating motifs could improve the performance of high-performance wet adhesives rather than only by interfacial bonds.

SUBMITTER: Tang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5892421 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature