Bio‐inspired adhesive hydrogel for biomedicine—principles and design strategies

W Li, X Yang, P Lai, L Shang - Smart Medicine, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The adhesiveness of hydrogels is urgently required in various biomedical applications such
as medical patches, tissue sealants, and flexible electronic devices. However, biological …

Bioinspired robust mechanical properties for advanced materials

B Wijerathne, T Liao, K Ostrikov, Z Sun - Small Structures, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nature is a substantial repository for various kinds of aquatic, terrestrial, and wind‐borne
plants and animals adapting extensively to sustain life on earth's different environmental …

How does gecko keratin stick to hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces in the presence and absence of water? An atomistic molecular dynamics investigation

T Materzok, A Canestraight, SN Gorb, F Muller-Plathe - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
We developed a united-atom model of gecko keratin to investigate the influence of
electrostatic and van der Waals contributions to gecko adhesion in scenarios representing …

Molecular Structure and Dynamics in Wet Gecko β-Keratin

H Eslami, T Materzok… - ACS Biomaterials Science …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate the molecular picture of water
sorption in gecko keratin and the influence of relative humidity (RH) on the local structure …

Gecko Adhesion on Flat and Rough Surfaces: Simulations with a Multi‐Scale Molecular Model

T Materzok, D De Boer, S Gorb, F Müller‐Plathe - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A multiscale modeling approach is used to develop a particle‐based mesoscale gecko
spatula model that is able to link atomistic simulations and mesoscale (0.44 µm) simulations …

Water uptake by gecko β-keratin and the influence of relative humidity on its mechanical and volumetric properties

M Khani, T Materzok, H Eslami… - Journal of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Grand canonical ensemble molecular dynamics simulations are done to calculate the water
content of gecko β-keratin as a function of relative humidity (RH). For comparison, we …

Tunable interfacial adhesion based on orthogonal supramolecular forces

W Han, J Fan, Z Hu, H Zhang, S Dong, X Ji - Polymer Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by the adhesion phenomena in nature, many synthetic adhesive materials based
on supramolecular interactions have been developed. Nevertheless, these materials …

Evolution of adhesion force behavior at the silica-HOPG interface from humidity-independent to humidity-dependent revealed on an AFM

T Lai, Y Chen, Y Zhang - The Journal of Adhesion, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The influence of relative humidity (RH) on adhesion force requires clarification. Adhesion
forces between atomic force microscopy (AFM) silica cantilevers and highly oriented …

Evolution behavior of adhesion force with continually changed relative humidity revealed on AFM

T Lai, R Wang, T Zhu - The Journal of Adhesion, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Adhesion forces on various surfaces with different hydrophilicity were measured by atomic
force microscopy in the force-volume mode and at a location to study the relative humidity …

Effect of external electric field on copper/silica contact electrification and adhesion: insight from first-principles and molecular mechanics investigations

J Wu, J Cao, H Bi, W Zhu, J Rong… - Journal of Physics D …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The electrostatic force induced by charge transfer during contact electrification is one of the
main components of adhesion force at the solid interface. Some studies found that the …