Learning new tricks from an old teacher: Materials engineering inspired by mussel fiber design principles
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Apr 27, 2021
from 03:00 to 04:00 |
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| Where | online |
| Attendees |
Niels Holten-Andersen |
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Growing evidence supports that the presence of metal-coordinate complex crosslinks in various biological materials such as mussel holdfast fibers plays a critical role in properties such as self-healing. Using metal-coordinating polymers, efforts to mimic these properties in metal-coordination crosslinked polymer materials have shown promise. In addition, with network mechanics dictated by coordinate crosslink dynamics the polymer materials can be easily tuned from visco-elastic fluids to soft solids. Given its exploitation in desirable material applications in nature, metal-coordinate crosslinking seems to provide a unique bio-inspired opportunity to advance stimuli-responsive polymer materials design. Various lessons from this pursuit are presented.
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