Hydrogels are a unique class of polymeric materials that possess an interconnected porous
network across various length scales from nano-to macroscopic dimensions and exhibit …

Polymeric materials produced from fossil fuels have been intimately linked to the
development of industrial activities in the 20th century and, consequently, to the …

Transition-metal coordination complexes are emerging as a broad class of supramolecular
crosslinks that can be used to engineer the mechanical properties of advanced structural …

The adhesion of some marine organisms to almost any kind of surface in wet conditions has
aroused increasing interest in recent decades. Numerous fundamental studies have been …

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 …

Tough adhesives provide resistance against high debonding forces, and these adhesives
are difficult to design because of the simultaneous requirement of strength and ductility …

Nature employs sophisticated control of a structure's properties at multiple length scales to
achieve its wet adhesion. However, the translation of such structures has very often been …

Hydrogels have attracted much attention for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications
due to the similarity of their biomimetic structure to the extracellular matrix of natural living …

The attachment strategy based on catecholic chemistry has been arousing renewed interest
since the work on polymerized catecholic amine (polydopamine)(Messersmith et al …

Catechols are found in nature taking part in a remarkably broad scope of biochemical
processes and functions. Though not exclusively, such versatility may be traced back to …