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Published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces: Robust, Amine-Rich Mussel-Inspired Coatings

Our collaborative paper on mussel-inspired nanoscale coatings has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

3D illustration of two substrates bonded by a crosslinked polymer network anchored through catechol groups
Illustration of catechol-based interfacial bonding (SOMA Lab).

The paper reports mussel-inspired nanoscale coatings that are rich in primary amines and chemically robust, and that form through a pathway that does not depend on cation–π interactions.

This work was carried out with Prof. Jinsang Kim's group and Prof. Zhan Chen's group at the University of Michigan.

M. I. Hasan, M.-H. Lee, C. Yu, D. Seo, Y. Wu, J.-M. Heo, Z. Chen, J. Kim*, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 18, 33402–33413 (2026).

Full text: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6c05964