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Drawing inspiration from the sticky adhesive proteins produced by mussels and sandcastle worms, a multidisciplinary research team has devised a synthetic pathway to make adhesive polymers for underwater applications without the polymers getting fouled up during processing (J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/ja309044z). Chemists have tried to use the dihydroxy functional group of catechols to mimic the amino acid 3,4-dihydroxy-
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