image: Image of mussels in their natural environment: bound to a rock at low tide near UCSB's campus. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 Oct. 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by E. Filippidi at University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Toughening elastomers using mussel-inspired iron-catechol complexes." view more
Credit: Dr. Emmanouela Filippidi