Nanoparticle-assembled bioadhesive coacervate coating with prolonged gastrointestinal retention for inflammatory bowel disease therapy

P Zhao, X Xia, X Xu, KKC Leung, A Rai, Y Deng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A key challenge for the effective treatment of gastrointestinal diseases including
inflammatory bowel disease is to develop an orally administered drug delivery system …

The Photophysics and Photochemistry of Melanin‐Like Nanomaterials Depend on Morphology and Structure

A Mavridi‐Printezi, A Menichetti… - … A European Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Melanin‐like nanomaterials have found application in a large variety of high economic and
social impact fields as medicine, energy conversion and storage, photothermal catalysis and …

Probing the heterogeneous structure of eumelanin using ultrafast vibrational fingerprinting

C Grieco, FR Kohl, AT Hanes, B Kohler - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Eumelanin is a brown-black biological pigment with sunscreen and radical scavenging
functions important to numerous organisms. Eumelanin is also a promising redox-active …

Ultrafast Radical Photogeneration Pathways in Eumelanin

C Grieco, FR Kohl, B Kohler - Photochemistry and Photobiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Eumelanin is a ubiquitous biological pigment that rapidly and efficiently deactivates excited
states created by UV or visible radiation. Paradoxically, photoirradiation of eumelanin also …

Effects of intra-and intermolecular hydrogen bonding on O–H bond photodissociation pathways of a catechol derivative

C Grieco, AT Hanes, L Blancafort… - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The catechol functional motif is thought to play both a structural and photochemical role in
the ubiquitous natural pigment, eumelanin. Intramolecular and intermolecular hydrogen …

Electrochemically active polyimides containing hydroxyl-functionalized triphenylmethane as molecular sensors for fluoride anion detection

AP Chiriac, I Butnaru, MD Damaceanu - Electrochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Electrochemically active polyimides containing hydroxyl-functionalized
triphenylmethane are developed.•Their redox features highlighted for the first time are …

Evaluation of aromatic thiols as photoinitiators

DM Love, BD Fairbanks, CN Bowman - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
The unique photodynamics of aromatic thiols (relative to alkyl thiols) allowed their
employment as effective ultraviolet and visible light photoinitiators (PIs) for acrylate …

Reinvestigating the photoprotection properties of a mycosporine amino acid motif

AL Whittock, MAP Turner, DJL Coxon… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
With the growing concern regarding commercially available ultraviolet (UV) filters damaging
the environment, there is an urgent need to discover new UV filters. A family of molecules …

Photobiological systems studied by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy (2019–2020)

A Mezzetti - 2021 - books.rsc.org
In the present review, the scientific results and technical improvements in the last two years
(2019 and 2020) in the field of time-resolved IR spectroscopy in the (sub-) ns–second …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast excited state dynamics of silver ion-mediated cytosine–cytosine base pairs in metallo-DNA

FR Kohl, Y Zhang, AP Charnay… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
To better understand the nexus between structure and photophysics in metallo-DNA
assemblies, the parallel-stranded duplex formed by the all-cytosine oligonucleotide, dC 20 …