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Air/water interfacial formation of freestanding, stimuli-responsive, self-healing catecholamine Janus-faced
Seonki Hong1, Clemens F Schaber, Kirstin Dening
1Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291, University Rd, Daejeon, 305-701, South Korea.
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.
