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Student Seminar
Towards Achieving Smart Adhesives: Mussel-Inspired Adhesives and Photodetachable Adhesives
Mirette Fawzy
Department of Physics, SFU
Towards Achieving Smart Adhesives: Mussel-Inspired Adhesives and Photodetachable Adhesives
Feb 08, 2019 at 1:30PM
Synopsis
Achieving smart adhesives that can work in wet environments and/or can be switched 鈥渙n鈥 and 鈥渙ff鈥 on demand is promising to a wide range of applications ranging from drug-delivery to following whales and monitoring submarines. In this talk, we will briefly introduce underwater bonding, musselinspired adhesives, and present some of the work done to achieve what might be the strongest underwater adhesive found to date [1]. Furthermore, we will discuss the recent experiments and results on photodetachable adhesives [2].
References:
[1] North, M.A., Del Grosso, C.A. and Wilker, J.J., (2017). 鈥淗igh
Strength Underwater Bonding with Polymer Mimics of Mussel Adhesive
Proteins鈥. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(8), pp.7866-7872.
[2] Gao, Y., Wu, K. and Suo, Z., (2018). 鈥淧hotodetachable Adhesion鈥. Advanced Materials, p.1806948.