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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: Soft Matter. 2013 Sep 25;9(43):10.1039/C3SM51824H. doi: 10.1039/C3SM51824H

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Cartoon highlighting translation of the strong, healable DOPA-Fe3+ crosslinks of the cuticle of Mytilus californianus, and the structure of the 4-arm poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) backbone with pendant catechol (Cat), nitrocatechol (nCat) and 3-hydroxy-4-pyridinone (HOPO) chelating moieties.