{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Stevens MJ"],"funding":["NIBIB NIH HHS"],"pagination":["5045-9"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3974424"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["23(9)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Phragmatopoma Californica builds a tubular dwelling by gluing bits of sand and seashell together underwater with a proteinaceous adhesive. In the lab, the animals will build with 0.5 mm glass beads. Two spots of glue with a consistent volume of about 100 pL each are deposited on the glass beads before placement on the end of the tube. The animals wriggled the particles for 20-30 s before letting go, which suggested that the adhesive was sufficiently set within 30 s to support the glass beads. The structure of the adhesive joints was examined at the micro- and nanoscopic length scales using laser scanning confocal and atomic force microscopies. At the microscale, the adhesive was a cellular solid with cell diameters ranging from 0.5 to 6.0 mum, distributed to create a steep porosity gradient that ranged from near zero at the outside edges to about 50% at the center of the adhesive joint. At the nanoscale, the adhesive appeared to be an accretion of trillions of deformable nanospheres, reminiscent of a high-solids-content latex adhesive. The implications of the structure for the functionality of the adhesive is discussed."],"journal":["Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids"],"pubmed_title":["Multiscale structure of the underwater adhesive of Phragmatopoma californica: a nanostructured latex with a steep microporosity gradient."],"pmcid":["PMC3974424"],"funding_grant_id":["R01 EB000278-13","R01 EB000278"],"pubmed_authors":["Stevens MJ","Stewart RJ","Hlady V","Steren RE"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Multiscale structure of the underwater adhesive of Phragmatopoma californica: a nanostructured latex with a steep microporosity gradient.","description":"Phragmatopoma Californica builds a tubular dwelling by gluing bits of sand and seashell together underwater with a proteinaceous adhesive. In the lab, the animals will build with 0.5 mm glass beads. Two spots of glue with a consistent volume of about 100 pL each are deposited on the glass beads before placement on the end of the tube. The animals wriggled the particles for 20-30 s before letting go, which suggested that the adhesive was sufficiently set within 30 s to support the glass beads. The structure of the adhesive joints was examined at the micro- and nanoscopic length scales using laser scanning confocal and atomic force microscopies. At the microscale, the adhesive was a cellular solid with cell diameters ranging from 0.5 to 6.0 mum, distributed to create a steep porosity gradient that ranged from near zero at the outside edges to about 50% at the center of the adhesive joint. At the nanoscale, the adhesive appeared to be an accretion of trillions of deformable nanospheres, reminiscent of a high-solids-content latex adhesive. The implications of the structure for the functionality of the adhesive is discussed.","dates":{"release":"2007-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2007 Apr","modification":"2020-10-29T11:25:47Z","creation":"2019-03-27T01:24:22Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC3974424","cross_references":{"pubmed":["17394366"],"doi":["10.1021/la063765e"]}}