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| Language: | en |
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Nature
2025
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| Online Access: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40702173/ |
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- Mechanical underwater adhesive devices for soft substrates. Kang, Ziliang Gomez, Johanna A Ross, Alisa MeiShan Kirtane, Ameya R Zhao, Ming Cai, Yubin Chen, Fu Xing Chen, Corona L Becdach, Isaac Diaz Dey, Rajib Ismael, Andrei Russel Moon, Injoo Yang, Yiyuan Muller, Benjamin N Say, Mehmet Girayhan Pettinari, Andrew Kobrin, Jason Morimoto, Joshua Smierciak, Ted Lopes, Aaron Erdogan, Ayten Ebru Murphy, Matt Fabian, Niora Guevara, Ashley Laidlaw, Benedict Schmidt, Kailyn Hayward, Alison M Techet, Alexandra H Kenaley, Christopher P Traverso, Giovanni Animals Water Adhesives Hydrogen-Ion Concentration Adhesiveness Biomimetics Temperature Fishes Achieving long-term underwater adhesion to dynamic, regenerating soft substrates that undergo extreme fluctuations in pH and moisture remains a major unresolved challenge, with far-reaching implications for healthcare, manufacturing, robotics and marine applications. Here, inspired by remoras-fish equipped with specialized adhesive discs-we developed the Mechanical Underwater Soft Adhesion System (MUSAS). Through detailed anatomical, behavioural, physical and biomimetic investigations of remora adhesion on soft substrates, we uncovered the key physical principles and evolutionary adaptations underlying their robust attachment. These insights guided the design of MUSAS, which shows extraordinary versatility, adhering securely to a wide range of soft substrates with varying roughness, stiffness and structural integrity. MUSAS achieves an adhesion-force-to-weight ratio of up to 1,391-fold and maintains performance under extreme pH and moisture conditions. We demonstrate its utility across highly translational models, including in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo settings, enabling applications such as ultraminiaturized aquatic kinetic temperature sensors, non-invasive gastroesophageal reflux monitoring, long-acting antiretroviral drug delivery and messenger RNA administration via the gastrointestinal tract.