Wet adhesion technology has potential applications in various fields, especially in the
biomedical field, yet it has not been completely mastered by humans. Many aquatic …

Although the past decade has witnessed unprecedented medical advances, achieving rapid
and effective hemostasis remains challenging. Uncontrolled bleeding and wound infections …

Escherichia coli O157: H7 can recover from sublethally injured (SI) state, which causes
threat of foodborne illness. Adhesion plays a key role in the carriage of pathogens in food. In …

Biomolecular semiflexible polymer networks with persistence lengths well above those of
single polymeric chains serve important structural and adhesive roles in biology …

Amyloid nanofibers, such as curli nanofibers, have proven capable of adhering strongly to
abiotic surfaces. However, the adhesive performance of individual nanofibers and the …

Curli fibers are functional amyloids that exhibit strong adhesion and robust self-assembly as
biofilm structural components; however, the binding energetics and mechanical properties of …

Hypothesis Self-assembling protein subunits hold great potential as biomaterials with
improved functions. Among the self-assembled protein structures functional amyloids are …

Fibrous networks of semiflexible polymers are prevalent in biological materials such as
connective tissues, the cytoskeleton, and biofilm extracellular matrices. While the …

Naturally occurring biomaterials often have amazing functions, such as mechanical, thermal,
electromagnetic, biological, optical and acoustic. These superior performances are often …

CsgA is a major protein subunit of Escherichia coli biofilms and plays key roles in bacterial
adhesion and invasion. CsgA proteins can self-assemble into amyloid nanofibers …