Underwater adhesives are in high demand in both commercial and industrial sectors.
Compared with adhesives used in dry (air) environments, adhesives used for wet or …

In nature, many organisms can effectively fix to contact substrates and move and prey in
complex living environments, such as underwater, seawater, and tidal environments, owing …

Water and adhesives have a conflicting relationship as demonstrated by the failure of most
man-made adhesives in underwater environments. However, living creatures routinely …

Underwater adhesives have drawn enormous interests for biomedical and engineering
applications. In this work, a strong underwater adhesive is developed by addition reaction …

Due to the long-standing challenge to realize underwater adhesion, there are a few
commercially available underwater pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs), which are …

A hydrogel is a polymer material with a porous network structure, which allows the hydrogel
to swell rapidly underwater without dissolving. This unique property of hydrogels lays the …

Underwater adhesion has been the focus of many recent developments motivated by
potential biomedical applications. Although most literature on underwater adhesives has …

Amazing wet adhesion phenomena in nature have greatly promoted the development of
high-performance adhesive materials from fundamental research to practical applications …

The challenges of developing medical adhesives for the wet environment of open surgery
are analogous to the adhesion problems solved by marine organisms living at the watery …

Robust underwater adhesion is challenging because a hydration layer impedes the
interaction between substrates and adhesives. Phenolic adhesives inspired by marine …