Sentences with phrase «of mussel adhesive»

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To solve these problems, Phillip Messersmith and his colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., have contributed their knowledge of wet adhesives in mussels (SN: 12/18/04, p. 401).

A Korean research team, affiliated with UNIST has presented a new type of underwater adhesives that are tougher than the natural biological glues that mussels normally use to adhere to rocks, ships, and larger sea critters.

Benyus says the strategy has already yielded a wide range of new products that may replicate nature's successes: ceramics with the strength and toughness of abalone shells, self - assembling computer chips that form by processes similar to the way that tooth enamel grows, adhesives that mimic the glue that mussels use to anchor themselves in place, and self - cleaning plastics based on the structure of a lotus leaf.

Purdue University researchers have shown that a synthetic version of a high - strength adhesive produced by mussels is non-toxic to living cells, suggesting its potential suitability for surgical and other biomedical applications.

Thanks to an incredibly strong matrix of adhesive proteins, known as byssal threads, that it extrudes through its two - hinged shell, the mussel is able to anchor itself to almost any surface — even Teflon.

This schematic shows how cells are cultured onto a synthetic version of a high - strength mussel adhesive that sets underwater.

Mussels can grip fast to wet and rough surfaces using an adhesive protein and tough, plasticky fibres that can repair themselves when a few of their molecular bonds are broken.

Michigan Tech's Bruce P. Lee borrowed chemistry found in the adhesive proteins of mussels, left, to make his hydrogel actuator.

Indeed, when a detailed biochemical analysis of the mussel footprints was performed, biomolecular signatures of the adhesive proteins were found on all the control materials but not on the Wyss» slippery surfaces.

In the quest to develop better ways of sealing wounds, scientists have created adhesives inspired by porcupine quills, mussels and slugs.

And in a series of profiles of «21st Century Chemists,» we're focusing on younger, mid-career chemists, several of whom are women, who are working on especially «cool» and significant research — like the Purdue University chemist studying the glue mussels secrete underwater, so he can synthesize a wet - setting adhesive that could be used as a surgical glue or new bone cement.