Man-made adhesives cannot match the ability of a marine mussel to affix itself to a wet rock. New insights help to describe the protein-surface bonding central to this feat of biological materials engineering.
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Jonathan J. Wilker is in the Department of Chemistry and School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
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