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Preventing mussel adhesion using lubricant-infused materials

Published:2017-08-18 Issue:6352 Volume:357 Page:668-673
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Amini Shahrouz¹²^ORCID,Kolle Stefan³⁴^ORCID,Petrone Luigi¹^ORCID,Ahanotu Onyemaechi³^ORCID,Sunny Steffi⁴,Sutanto Clarinda N.¹,Hoon Shawn⁵^ORCID,Cohen Lucas³⁴^ORCID,Weaver James C.³,Aizenberg Joanna³⁴^ORCID,Vogel Nicolas⁶^ORCID,Miserez Ali¹⁷^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Biomimetic Sensor Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798.

2. Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N), Singapore 637553.

3. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

4. John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

5. Molecular Engineering Laboratory (MEL), Biomedical Sciences Institutes, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*Star), Singapore.

6. Institute of Particle Technology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Haberstrasse 9A, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.

7. School of Biological Sciences, 60 Nanyang Drive, NTU, Singapore 637551.

Abstract

When you don't want things to stick During marine fouling, surfaces are encrusted with scale or biological organisms, which can be expensive to remove. Amini et al. used polymers infused with organic lubricants to prevent mussels from adhering to a submerged surface. The infused polymer presents a relatively soft surface to the mussel. This means that when the mussel probes the surface with its feet, it is less likely to release adhesive threads, which reduces its adhesion. The antifouling properties of the treatment were observed in both a laboratory setting and field testing. Science , this issue p. 668

Funder

Office of Naval Research

U.S. Department of Energy

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Singapore Maritime Institute

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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