Messersmith Research Group
Now at the University of California Berkeley
Mussel-Inspired “Glue” For Surgical Repair And Cancer Drug Delivery
Northwestern’s Phillip Messersmith creates materials that mimic adhesives of marine mussels for medical applications.
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Negative Swelling Mussel-Inspired Adhesive Hydrogels
New adhesive exploits catechol derivatized block copolymer to yield negative swelling tissue adhesives.
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Covalent Gels Fortified by Fe-Catechol Coordination
Mussel-inspired processing leads to insight into the role of iron in mussel byssus and in bioinspired hydrogels.
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Polyphenol Coatings
STICKING POWER OF PLANT POLYPHENOLS USED IN NEW COATINGS: Compounds found in red wine and green tea stick to anything, retain useful properties
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Polyphenol Coatings
Colorless Multifunctional Coatings Inspired by Polyphenols Found in Tea, Chocolate, and Wine
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Advancing Fetal Surgery
Phillip Messersmith is synthesizing polymers that mimic the sticky proteins that mussels secrete to develop adhesives that would work as a sealant in surgery.
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Nanomedicine
Two recent papers describe polydopamine-assisted surface functionalization and targeting of gold nanorods for photothermal ablation of cancer cells and bacteria.
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