. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Biomacromolecules. 2010 Oct 4;11(11):2976–2984. doi: 10.1021/bm1007794

Table 1.

Composition of the adhesive polymers.

Adhesive Polymer	Polymer Composition (wt%)				Catechol Type	GPC
	¹H NMR			UV-vis		Molecular Weight (M_w)	PD^*
	PEG	PCL	Catechol	Catechol		Molecular Weight (M_w)	PD^*
AP1	84.0	13.4	2.6	3.1 ± 0.30	DOHA	98,000	2.8
AP2	76.6	20.6	2.8	3.4 ± 0.11	Dopamine	66,000	4.4

Polydispersity (PD) = weight average molecular weight (Mw)/number average molecular weight (Mn)