Publications

 

 

• Adhesion of Catechol-Functionalized Linear-Dendritic Block Copolymers: Dendritic Effect, Self-Assembly, and Bioadhesion
  A. Lancelot, M. E. Meger, E. Guerreiro Gómez, T. Sierra, J. J. Wilker
  Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 2413398

• Biocompatibility of mussel-inspired water-soluble tissue adhesives
  Aishwarya V. Menon, Amelia A. Putnam-Neeb, Caitlin E. Brown, Christa J. Crain, Gert J. Breur, Sanjeev K. Narayanan, Jonathan J. Wilker, Julie C. Liu
  J Biomed. Mater. Res. 2024; 1-14

• Positive Charge Influences on the Surface Interactions and Cohesive Bonding of a Catechol-Containing Polymer.
  Jennifer M. Garcia-Rodriguez and Jonathan J. Wilker.
  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024, 16 (12), 15435-15445

• Sustainably sourced components to generate high-strength adhesives.
  Westerman, C.R., McGill, B.C. & Wilker, J.J.
  Nature 621, 306–311 (2023). 

• Blends of Conjugated and Adhesive Polymers for Sticky Organic Thin-Film Transistors.
  ​Sutjianto, J. G., Yoo, S. H., Westerman, C. R., Jackson, T. N., Wilker, J. J., Gomez, E. D., 
  Adv. Electron. Mater. 2023, 2300422.

• "Underwater Bonding with a Biobased Adhesive from Tannic Acid and Zein Protein"
  Gudrun Schmidt*, Peter E. Christ, Paige E. Kertes, Racheal V. Fisher, Logan J. Miles, and Jonathan J. Wilker
  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, Volume 15, Issue 27, pages 32863–32874 

• "Increasing the Scale and Decreasing the Cost of Making a Catechol-Containing Adhesive Polymer"
  Alexandre Lancelot, Amelia A. Putnam-Neeb, S. Lee Huntington, Jennifer M. Garcia-Rodriguez, Nevin Naren, Cindy L. Atencio-Martinez, and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Macromolecules 2023, Volume 56, Issue 3, pages 1141-1153

• "Effect of Cross-Linkers on Mussel- and Elastin-Inspired Adhesives on Physiological Substrates"
  Sydney Hollingshead, Jessica E. Torres, Jonathan J. Wilker*, and Julie C. Liu*
  ACS Applied Bio Materials 2022, Volume 5, Issue 2, pages 630–641

• "Tunable Tannic Acid–Zein Adhesives for Bonding Different Substrates"
  Gudrun Schmidt*, Kylie H. Smith, Logan J. Miles, Carissa K. Gettelfinger, Jana A. Hawthorne, Erin C. Fruzyna, Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Advanced Sustainable Systems 2022, page 2100392

• "Rare metal, precious adhesion"
  Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Science 2021, Volume 374, Issue 6564, pages 148-150

• "Cytocompatibility of a mussel-inspired poly(lactic acid)-based adhesive"
  Sydney Hollingshead, Heather Siebert, Jonathan J. Wilker*, Julie C. Liu*
  Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A 2021, pages 1–9

• "Changing polymer catechol content to generate adhesives for high versus low energy surfaces"
  Amelia A. Putnam and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Soft Matter 2021, Volume 17, pages 1999-2009

• "Influences of Phosphates on the Adhesion of a Catechol-Containing Polymer"
  Taylor A. Jones and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2020, Volume 2, Issue 11, pages 4632-4639

• "Surface hydration for antifouling and bio-adhesion"
  Chelsey A. Del Grosso, Chuan Leng, Kexin Zhang, Hsiang-Chieh Hung, Shaoyi Jiang*, Zhan Chen* and  Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Chemical Science 2020, Volume 11, page 10367

• "Availability of Environmental Iron Influences the Performance of Biological Adhesives Produced by Blue Mussels"
  Natalie A. Hamada, Christopher Gilpin, Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Environmental Science & Technology 2020, Volume 54, Issue 16, pages 10254–10260

• "Weak Bonds in a Biomimetic Adhesive Enhance Toughness and Performance"
  Michael G. Mazzotta, Amelia A. Putnam, Michael A. North, Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2020, Volume 142, Issue 10, pages 4762-4768

• "Strong Adhesives from Corn Protein and Tannic Acid"
  Gudrun Schmidt*, Jessyca T. Woods, Lawrence X.-B. Fung, Christopher J. Gilpin, Bruce R. Hamaker, Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2019, 1900077.

• "Deriving Commercial Level Adhesive Performance from a Bio-Based Mussel Mimetic Polymer"
  Heather Siebert, Jonathan J. Wilker*
  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2019, Volume 7, Issue 15, pages 13315-13323.

• "Silk-Like Protein with Persistent Radicals Identified in Oyster Adhesive by Solid-State NMR"
  Keith J. Fritzsching, Pu Duan, Erik M. Alberts, Andrés M. Tibabuzo Perdomo, Paul Kenny, Jonathan J. Wilker*, Klaus Schmidt-Rohr*
  ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2019, Volume 2, Issue 7, pages 2840-2852.

• "Improving the molecular weight and synthesis of a renewable biomimetic adhesive polymer"
  Heather M. Siebert, Jonathan J. Wilker*
  European Polymer Journal, 2019, Volume 113, pages 321-327. 

• "Cooking Chemistry Transforms Proteins into High-Strength Adhesives"
  Jessica K. Román, Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, Volume 141, Issue 3, pages 1359-1365. 

• "Disordered Structures in Biology Can Provide Material Properties not Obtained with Precise Hierarchy"
  Rebecca A. Metzler, Francois Barthelat, Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Advanced Functional Materials, 2018.

• "Critical factors for the bulk adhesion of engineered elastomeric proteins"
  M. Jane Brennan, Sydney E. Hollingshead, Jonathan J. Wilker*, Julie C. Liu*
  Royal Society Open Science, 2018.

• "Changes in Cementation of Reef Building Oysters Transitioning from Larvae to Adults"
  Andrés M. Tibabuzo Perdomo, Erik M. Alberts, Stephen D. Taylor, Debra M. Sherman, Chia-Ping Huang, Jonathan Wilker*
  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018.

• High Strength Adhesives from Catechol Cross-Linking of Zein Protein and Plant Phenolics"
  Gudrun Schmidt, Bruce R. Hamaker, Jonathan Wilker*
  Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2018, Volume 2, Issue 3, 1700159.

• "How to Suck like an Octopus"
  Jonathan Wilker*
  Nature, 2017, Volume 546, Issue 7658, pages 358-359.

• "Examining Potential Active Tempering of Adhesive Curing by Marine Mussels"
  Natalie A. Hamada, Victor A. Roman, Steven M. Howell, Jonathan Wilker*
  Biomimetics, 2017, Volume 2, Issue 3, pages 1-11.

• "High Strength Underwater Bonding with Polymer Mimics of Mussel Adhesive Proteins"
  Michael North, Chelsey A. Del Grosso, Jonathan Wilker*
  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, Volume 9, Issue 8, pages 7866-7872.

• "Integrating Mussel Chemistry into a Bio-Based Polymer to Create Degradable Adhesives"
  Courtney L. Jenkins, Heather M. Siebert, Jonathan Wilker*
  Macromolecules, 2017, Volume 50, Issue 2, pages 561-568.

• "A bioinspired elastin-based protein for a cytocompatible underwater adhesive"
  Jane Brennan, Bridget Kilbride, Jonathan Wilker*, Julie Liu
  Biomaterials,  2017, Volume 124, pages 116-125.

• "Adhesives Inspired by Marine Mussels" 
  Courtney L. Jenkins, Heather J. Meredith, Jonathan Wilker*
  Biomaterials from Nature for Advanced Devices and Therapies, 2016. (ISBN 9781119178071)

• "Managing Redox Chemistry To Deter Marine Biological Adhesion"
  Chelsey A. Del Grosso, Thomas W. McCarthy, Christopher L. Clark, Joshua L. Cloud, Jonathan Wilker*
  ACS Chemistry of Materials, 2016, Volume 28, Issue 18, pages 6791-6796

• "Composition and Structure of Oyster Adhesive Reveals Heterogeneous Properties in a Biological Composite"
  Rebecca A. Metzler, Rebecca Rist, Erik Alberts, Paul Kenny, Jonathan Wilker*
  Advanced Functional Materials, 2016, Volume 26, Issue 37, pages 6814-6821

• "Cytocompatibility Studies of a Biomimetic Copolymer with Simplified Structure and High-strength Adhesion"
  Jane Brennan, Heather Meredith, Courtney Jenkins, Jonathan Wilker, Julie Liu*
  Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 2016, Volume 104, Issue 4, pages 983-990

• "Positive Charges and Underwater Adhesion"
  Jonathan Wilker*
  Science, 2015, Volume 349, Issue 6248, pages 582-583

• "The Interplay of Modulus, Strength and Ductility in Adhesive Design Using Biomimetic Polymer Chemistry"
  Heather Meredith and Jonathan Wilker*
  Advanced Functional Materials, 2015, Volume 25, Issue 31, pages 5057-5065

• "Structural and Compositional Characterization of the Cement Produced by Reef Building Oysters"
  Erik Alberts, Stephen Taylor, Stephanie Edwards, Debra Sherman, Chia-Ping Huang, Paul Kenny, and Jonathan Wilker*
  ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2015, Volume 7, Issue 16, pages 8533-8538

• Selective Formation of Metastable Ferrihydrite in the Chiton Tooth"
  Lyle Gordon, Jessica Román, R. Michael Everly, Michael Cohen, Jonathan Wilker, Derk Joester*
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2014, Volume 53, Issue 43, pages 11506-11509

• "Self-Healing Polymers: Sticky When Wet"
  Jonathan Wilker*
  Nature Materials, 2014, Volume 13, Issue 9, pages 849-850

• "Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies on Buried Heterogeneous Biointerfaces"
  Chi Zang, Joshua Jasensky, Chaun Leng, Chelsey Del Grosso, Gary Smith, Jonathan Wilker, and Zhan Chen*
  Optics Letters, 2014, Volume 39, Issue 9, pages 2715-2718

• "Enhancing the Adhesion of a Biomimetic Polymer Yields Performance Rivaling Commercial Glues"
  Heather Meredith, Courtney Jenkins, and Jonathan Wilker*
  Advanced Functional Materials, 2014, Volume 24, Issue 21, pages 3259-3267

• "Molecular Weight Effects upon the Adhesive Bonding of a Mussel Mimetic Polymer"
  Courtney Jenkins, Heather Meredith, and Jonathan Wilker*
  ACS Appl. Materials Interfaces, 2013, Volume 5, Issue 11, pages 5091-5096

• "A Review on Tough and Sticky Hydrogels"
  Charles Peak, Jonathan Wilker, and Gudrun Schmidt*
  Colloid Polymer Sci., 2013, Issue 291, pages 2031-2047

• "Interfacial Structure of a DOPA-Inspired Adhesive Polymer Studied by Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy"
  Chuan Leng, Yuwei Liu, Courtney Jenkins, Heather Meredith, Jonathan Wilker*, and Zhan Chen*
  Langmuir, 2013, Volume 29, 6659-6654

• "Combining Biomimetic Principles from the Lotus Leaf and Mussel Adhesive: Polystyrene Films with Superhydrophobic and Adhesive Layers"
  Ana Isabel Neto, Heather Meredith, Courtney Jenkins, Jonathan Wilker, and Joao F. F. Mano*
  RSC Advances, 2013, Volume 3, 9352-9356

• "Robust and Adhesive Hydrogels from Cross-linked Polyethylene Glycol and Silicate for Biomedical Use"
  Chia-Jung Wu, Jonathan J. Wilker, and Gudrun Schmidt*
  Macromolecular Bioscience, 2013, Volume 13, pages 59-66.

• "Ambivalent Adhesives: Combining Biomimetic Cross-Linking With Antiadhesive Oligo(ethylene glycol)"
  Cristina R. Matos-Peréz and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Macromolecules, 2012, Volume 45, pages 6634-6639.

• "Polymer Composition and Substrate Influences on the Adhesive Bonding of a Biomimetic, Cross-Linking Polymer"
  Cristina R. Matos-Peréz, James D. White, and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, Volume 134, pages 9498-9505.

• "Underwater Bonding With Charged Polymer Mimics of Marine Mussel Adhesive Proteins"
  James D. White and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Macromolecules, 2011, Volume 44, pages 5085-5088.

• "Biomaterials: Redox and Adhesion on the Rocks"
  Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Nature Chemical Biology, 2011, Volume 7, Pages 579-580.

• "Biomaterials at the Beach: How Marine Biology Uses Chemistry to Make Materials"
  Book Chapter in "Letters to a Young Chemist"
  Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Edited by Abhik Ghosh
  2011 from Wiley Interscience

• “Highly Extensible Bio-Nanocomposite Fibers”
  Akhilesh K. Gaharwan, Patrick J. Shexnailder, Avinash Dundigalla, James D. White, Cristina R. Matos-Peréz, Joshua L. Cloud, Soenke Seifert, Jonathan J. Wilker*, Gudrun Schmidt*
  Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2011, Volume 32, Pages 50-47 (Cover Article)

• "Oysters Produce an Organic−Inorganic Adhesive for Intertidal Reef Construction"
  Jeremy R. Burkett, Lauren M. Hight, Paul Kenny and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, Volume 132, pages 12531-12533.
  Press related to this article

• "The Iron-Fortified Adhesive System of Marine Mussels"
  Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2010, Volume 49, Issue 44, pages 8076-8078.
  Review Article

• "Piezoelectric Inkjet Printing of Medical Adhesives and Sealants"
  Ryan D. Boehm, Shaun D. Gittard, Jaqueline M.H. Byrne, Anand Doraiswamy, Jonathan J. Wilker*, Timothy M. Dunaway, Rene Crombez, Weidian Shen, Yuan-Shin Lee, Roger J. Narayan*
  JOM Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 2010, Volume 62, Issue 7, pages 56-60

• "Metal–Bipyridine Complexes in DNA Backbones and Effects on Thermal Stability"
  Mildred M. Rodriguez-Ramos and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2010, Volume 15, pages 629-639.

• "Solution Speciation, Kinetics, and Observing Reaction Intermediates in the Alkylation of Oxidovanadium Compounds"
  Jessica M. Fautch and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Inorganic Chemistry, 2010, Volume 49, pages 4791-4801.

• "Marine Bioinorganic Materials: Mussels Pumping Iron"
  Jonathan J. Wilker
  Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2010, Volume 14, Issue 2, pages 276-283 (Cover article)

• "A Method for Measuring the Adhesion Strength of Marine Mussels"
  Jeremy R. Burkett, Jessica L. Wojtas, Joshua L. Cloud, and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Journal of Adhesion, 2009, Volume 85, pages 601 - 615.

• "Thin Films of Polymer Mimics of Cross-Linking Mussel Adhesive Proteins Deposited by Matrix Assisted Laser Evaporation"
  Rodica Cristescu*, Tomas Kocourek, Anand Doraiswamy, D. Mihaiescu, Roger Narayan, Ioan Stamatin, Jonathan J. Wilker, Miroslav Jelinek, Ion N. Mihailescu, and Douglas B. Chrisey.
  Applied Surface Science, 2009, Volume 255, pages 5496 - 5498.

• "Bulk Adhesive Strength of Recombinant Mussel Adhesive Protein"
  Hyung Joon Cha*, Dong Soo Hwang, Seonghye Lim, James D. White, Cristina R. Matos-Perez and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Biofouling, 2009, Volume 25, pages 99 - 107

• "Inkjet Printing of Bioadhesives"
  Anand Doraiswamy, Timothy M. Dunaway, Jonathan J. Wilker*, and Roger J. Narayan*
  Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, 2009, Volume 89B, pages 28 - 35

• "Oxidovanadium Complexes for the Consumption of Alkylating Toxins"
  Jessica M. Fautch, Phillip E. Fanwick, and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2009, pages 33 - 37 (Cover article)

• "Thermal Formation of Mixed-Metal Inorganic Complexes at Atmospheric Pressure"
  Wen-Ping Peng, Mike P. Goodwin, Hao Chen, Graham Cooks*, and Jonathan J. Wilker
  Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2008, Volume 22, pages 3540-3548.

• "Oxidative Iron Species and Ocean Challenges: a Perspective"
  Daniel Rittschof*, Cecilia Bonaventura, Jonathan J. Wilker, and CL Van Dover
  Biofouling, 2008, Volume 24, pages 173-175.

• "Chemical and Biochemical Insights on Preventing Cancer with Vanadium and Selenium"
  Elizabeth E. Hamilton, Jessica M. Fautch, Sarah M. Gentry, and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  American Chemical Society Symposium Book Series
  Vanadium: The Versatile Metal
  Volume 974, Chapter 21, pages 269-309, published in 2007.

• "Ligand-Based Backbone Modifications for Metal-Chelating Nucleic Acids"
  Megan M. Knagge and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Chemical Communications, 2007, pages 3356 - 3358. 

• "Simplified Polymer Mimics of Cross-Linking Adhesive Proteins"
  Glenn Westwood, Trinity N. Horton, and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Macromolecules, 2007, Volume 40, pages 3960 - 3964.

• "Adhesive Strength and Curing Rate of Marine Mussel Protein Extracts on Porcine Small Intestinal Submucosa (SIS)"
  Lal Ninan, Richard L. Stroshine*, Jonathan J. Wilker*, and Riyi Shi*
  Acta Biomaterialia, 2007, Volume 3, pages 687 - 694.

• "Synergistic Effects of Metals and Oxidants in the Curing of Marine Mussel Adhesive"
  Lauren M. Hight and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Journal of Materials Science, 2007, Volume 42, pages 8934 - 8942.
  Special Issue on Biological Hierarchical Nanomaterials

• "EPR Investigation and Spectral Simulations of Iron-Catecholate Complexes and Iron-Peptide Models of Marine Adhesive Cross-Links"
  Jaime T. Weisser, Mark J. Nilges, Mary J. Sever, and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Inorganic Chemistry, 2006, Volume 45, pages 7736-7747.

• "Structural Effects of Crosslinking a Biopolymer Hydrogel Derived from Marine Mussel Adhesive Protein"
  Elena Loizou, Jaime T. Weisser, Gudrun Schmidt*, and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Macromolecular Bioscience, 2006, Volume 6, pages 711-718. (Cover Article)

• "Alkylation of Inorganic Oxo Compounds and Insights on Preventing DNA Damage"
  Elizabeth E. Hamilton and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006, Volume 128, pages 3388-3395.

• "Absorption Spectroscopy and Binding Constants for First-Row Transitions Metal Complexes of a DOPA-Containing Peptide"
  Mary J. Sever and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Dalton Transactions, 2006, Issue 6, pages 813-822.

• "Inorganic Oxo Compounds React with Alkylating Agents: Implications for DNA Damage"
  Elizabeth E. Hamilton and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2004, Volume 43, pages 3290-3292.

• Inhibition of DNA Alkylation Damage with Inorganic Salts"
  Elizabeth E. Hamilton and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2004, Volume 9, pages 894-902.

• "Metal-Mediated Cross-Linking in the Generation of a Marine Mussel Adhesive"
  Mary J. Sever, Jaime T. Weisser, Jennifer Monahan, Shalini Srinivasan, and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2004, Volume 43, pages 447-450.

• "Cross-Linking the Protein Precursor of Marine Mussel Adhesives: Bulk Measurements and Reagents for Curing"
  Jennifer Monahan and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Langmuir, 2004, Volume 20, pages 3724-3729.'

• "Visible Absorption Spectra of Metal-Catecholate and Metal-Tironate Complexes"
  Mary J. Sever and Jonathan Wilker*
  Dalton Transactions, 2004, pages 1061-1072.

• "Rapid Chromatography for Evaluating Adsorption Characteristics of Cellulase Binding Domain Mimetics"
  Nathan S. Mosier, Jonathan J. Wilker, and Michael R. Ladisch*
  Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2004, Volume 86, pages 756-764.

• "Specificity of Metal Ion Cross-Linking in Marine Mussel Adhesives"
  Jennifer Monahan and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Chemical Communications, 2003, pages 1672-1673.

• "Adhesive Strength of Marine Mussel Extracts on Porcine Skin"
  Lal Ninan, Jennifer Monahan, Richard L Stroshine*, Jonathan J Wilker*, and Riyi Shi*
  Biomaterials, 2003, Volume 24, pages 4091-4099.

• "The Elusive Vanadate (V3O9) 3-: Isolation, Crystal Structure, and Nonaqueous Solution Behavior"
  Elizabth E. Hamilton, Philip E. Fanwick, and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2002, Volume 124, pages 78-82.

• "Synthesis of Peptides Containing DOPA (3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine)"
  Mary J. Sever and Jonathan J. Wilker*
  Tetrahedron, 2001, Volume 57, pages 6139-6146.