Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, Hong Kong.
Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 73000, China.
Nat Commun. 2017 Dec 20;8(1):2218. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02387-2.
The design of smart surfaces with switchable adhesive properties in a wet environment has remained a challenge in adhesion science and materials engineering. Despite intense demands in various industrial applications and exciting progress in mimicking the remarkable wet adhesion through the delicate control of catechol chemistry, polyelectrolyte complex, and supramolecular architectures, the full recapitulation of nature's dynamic function is limited. Here, we show a facile approach to synthesize bioinspired adhesive, which entails the reversible, tunable, and fast regulation of the wet adhesion on diverse surfaces. The smart wet adhesive takes advantage of the host-guest molecular interaction and the adhesive nature of catechol chemistry, as well as the responsive polymer, allowing for screening and activation of the interfacial interaction simply by a local temperature trigger in an on-demand manner. Our work opens up an avenue for the rational design of bioinspired adhesives with performances even beyond nature.
在湿环境中设计具有可切换粘附性能的智能表面在粘附科学和材料工程领域仍然是一个挑战。尽管在各种工业应用中存在强烈的需求,并且通过精细控制儿茶酚化学、聚电解质复合物和超分子结构在模拟显著的湿粘附方面取得了令人兴奋的进展,但对自然动态功能的完全再现是有限的。在这里,我们展示了一种简便的方法来合成仿生粘合剂,它可以在各种表面上实现可逆、可调谐和快速调节湿粘附。智能湿粘合剂利用主客体分子相互作用和儿茶酚化学的粘附性质,以及响应性聚合物,允许通过局部温度触发按需以简单的方式筛选和激活界面相互作用。我们的工作为具有甚至超越自然性能的仿生粘合剂的合理设计开辟了一条途径。