Biomimetic underwater adhesives with environmentally triggered setting mechanisms.
Biomimetic underwater adhesives with environmentally triggered setting mechanisms.
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DOI:
10.1002/adma.200902380
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发表时间:
2010-02-09
影响因子:
29.4
通讯作者:
Stewart, Russell J.
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作者:
Shao, Hui;Stewart, Russell J.
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 interface of land and ocean. These organisms routinely bond dissimilar materials together under seawater with little if any surface preparation. One such organism is the sandcastle worm (Phragmatopoma californica). Our goal is to copy this marine worm’s mechanisms of underwater bonding to create synthetic water-borne underwater medical adhesives, and in turn, to use the synthetic adhesives to test mechanistic hypotheses about the natural adhesive. Biomimetic underwater adhesives were formulated with polyelectrolytic analogues of the natural glue proteins. The copolymers condensed into complex coacervates—dense partially water-immiscible cohesive fluids poised between soluble polymers and insoluble polymeric salts. The boundary between fluid coacervate phases and solid or gelled states was dependent on divalent cation species as well as the pH and temperature, which demonstrated that these environmental factors can trigger the adhesive setting reaction (Fig. 1). The results provide, respectively, empirical support for the natural pH-triggered set hypothesis and practical triggers for controlled setting of mimetic medical adhesives.The sandcastle worm lives in protective tubular shells, which it assembles underwater by gluing together sand and seashell hash with a proteinaceous adhesive.[1-3] To build underwater sandcastles, the worm had to solve three major problems: first, its adhesive must form strong chemical bonds with wet surfaces and to do so it must displace interfacial water;[4, 5] second, its water-borne fluid adhesive must not dissolve into the ocean when it is secreted underwater; and third, setting of the adhesive must be accurately timed. If it sets too fast, the glue would plug up the worm’s adhesive ducts, an obvious problem, while setting too slowly would be inefficient. The sandcastle glue is composed of oppositely charged proteins, plus calcium and magnesium ions. A high proportion of charged sidechains (phosphates and amines) and dihydroxyphenyl-alanine (dopa) residues with catechol sidechains help the adhesive breech the interfacial water barrier to solve the first problem. Dopa residues have been implicated as promoters of strong adhesion to wet metal oxide surfaces.[2, 6, 7] To solve the second problem, the oppositely charged proteins may associate electrostatically into a dense cohesive fluid—a complex coacervate [8, 9]—that is partially immiscible in water, yet spreads over and wets submerged surfaces.[3] Glue protein analogues synthesized as water-soluble acrylates containing phosphate, amine, and catechol sidechains in similar proportions as the natural adhesive proteins condensed into complex coacervates when mixed under the right conditions.[10] Timing the hardening reaction, the third problem, is likely coupled to the pH differential between secretory granules (pH≈ 5) and seawater (pH= 8.2).[3, 11] Secretion into seawater
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影响因子:
2.8
作者:
Sun, ChengJun;Fantner, Georg E.;Waite, J. Herbert
通讯作者:
Waite, J. Herbert
影响因子:
4.6
作者:
Shao, Hui;Bachus, Kent N.;Stewart, Russell J.
通讯作者:
Stewart, Russell J.
影响因子:
3.9
作者:
Stevens, Mark J.;Steren, Rebekah E.;Stewart, Russell J.
通讯作者:
Stewart, Russell J.
DOI:
10.1007/bf00695330
发表时间:
1988-01-01
影响因子:
2
作者:
JENSEN, RA;MORSE, DE
通讯作者:
MORSE, DE
影响因子:
4.6
作者:
Gil, ES;Spontak, RJ;Hudson, SM
通讯作者:
Hudson, SM