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Royal Society of Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry B: Materials for biology and medicine, 47(2), p. 8292-8297, 2014
DOI: 10.1039/c4tb01503g
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Metals & polymers in the mix: fine-tuning the mechanical properties & color of self-healing mussel-inspired hydrogels
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Abstract
Ways to orchestrate the mechanical properties and colors of mussel-inspired metal cross-linked hydrogels based on DOPA functionalized cationic polymers are demonstrated. This is achieved by systematically varying the hardness of the coordinating metal and/or the cationic polymer.