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    Bioinspired Underwater Bonding and Debonding on Demand

    Year: 2012

    Journal: Angewandte Chemie, 20120618

    Authors: Zahid Shafiq†, Jiaxi Cui†, Lourdes Pastor-Pérez, Verónica San Miguel, Radu A. Gropeanu, Cristina Serrano, Aránzazu del Campo

    Last authors: Aránzazu del Campo

    Organizations: Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz (Germany)

    Country: Germany

    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).