Air/water interfacial formation of freestanding, stimuli-responsive, self-healing catecholamine janus-faced microfilms

  • Seonki Hong
  • , Clemens F. Schaber
  • , Kirstin Dening
  • , Esther Appel
  • , Stanislav N. Gorb
  • , Haeshin Lee

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Abstract

A catecholamine freestanding film is discovered to be spontaneously formed at the air-water interface, and the film has unique properties of robust surface adhesiveness, self-healing, and stimuli-responsive properties. The interfacial film-producing procedure is a simple single step containing polyamines and catechol(amine)s. It is found that oxygen-rich regions existing at an air-water interface greatly accelerate the catecholamine crosslinking reaction. (Figure Presented).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7581-7587
Number of pages7
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume26
Issue number45
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Dec 2014

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Keywords

  • Air-water interface
  • Catecholamine
  • Polymeric films
  • Self-healing
  • Stimuli-responsive

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