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Bridging Adhesion of Mussel-Inspired Peptides: Role of Charge, Chain Length, and Surface Type

[Image: see text] The 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (Dopa)-containing proteins of marine mussels provide attractive design paradigms for engineering synthetic polymers that can serve as high performance wet adhesives and coatings. Although the role of Dopa in promoting adhesion between mussels and vari...

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Autores principales: Wei, Wei, Yu, Jing, Gebbie, Matthew A., Tan, Yerpeng, Martinez Rodriguez, Nadine R., Israelachvili, Jacob N., Waite, J. Herbert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4310636/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25540823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la504316q