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Schematic illustration of a biologically inspired strategy for grafting antifouling polymers onto surfaces. The anchors exploit the adhesive nature of catechols such as Dopa or Dopa peptides inspired by mussel adhesive proteins. Catechol anchors may be chemically coupled to an antifouling polymer and adsorbed onto a surface (a graft-to approach) or to an initiator that is used for surface-initiated polymerization (a graft-from approach).
