Adhesion and Permeation in Adhesive Nanofibrous Materials

纳米纤维材料具有高孔隙率和超高表面积体积比的独特特征，这使得它们能够用于各种各样的应用，包括高吸收材料、过滤膜、化学或生物保护装置、支撑智能材料的膜和用于组织工程的支架。纳米纤维材料的功能化可以进一步提高其性能。在拟议的研究中，我们将开发和表征在干燥和/或潮湿环境中具有出色粘合性能的纳米纤维。由海洋贻贝分泌的粘附蛋白的强结合特性在过去十年中激发了大量的工作来工程化材料表面以赋予优异的粘附特性。贻贝启发的聚多巴胺基材料已被用于功能化各种材料表面。

Nanofibrous materials have unique features of high porosity and ultra-high surface-to-volume ratio, which allow them to be used in a wide variety of applications, including highly absorptive materials, filtration membranes, chemically or biologically protective devices, membranes supporting smart materials, and scaffold for tissue engineering. Functionalization of nanofibrous materials can further enhance their performance. In the proposed research, we will develop and characterize nanofibres with outstanding adhesive properties in a dry and/or a wet environment. The strong binding properties of the adhesive protein secreted by marine mussels have inspired tremendous work in the last decade to engineer material surfaces to endow excellent adhesive properties. Mussel-inspired polydopamine-based materials have been used to functionalize various material surfaces.