Student Seminar

Towards Achieving Smart Adhesives: Mussel-Inspired Adhesives and Photodetachable Adhesives

Friday, 08 February 2019 01:30PM PST
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Student Seminar
 
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 “on” and “off” 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). “High Strength Underwater Bonding with Polymer Mimics of Mussel Adhesive Proteins”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(8), pp.7866-7872.
[2] Gao, Y., Wu, K. and Suo, Z., (2018). “Photodetachable Adhesion”. Advanced Materials, p.1806948.