Polydopamine and related polycatecholamines can be easily deposited onto almost any
surface from mild, aqueous solution. This results in durable, nanoscale coatings that exhibit …

Natural polyphenols have attracted great interests in medicine, food and cosmetics due to
their versatile functions such as antioxidant, anticancer and antibacterial. The polyphenolic …

Surface‐independent smart antibacterial coatings with on‐demand antibiotics release
profiles have attracted increasing attention in medical instruments, antibiotics delivery …

The therapeutic potential of nanomaterials toward oxidative damage relevant diseases has
attracted great attentions by offering promising advantages compared with conventional …

This review reports the recent advances in the most important and straightforward synthetic
protocols for incorporating catechols into (bio) polymers, and discusses the emerging …

Polyphenols, due to their high biocompatibility and wide occurrence in nature, have
attracted increasing attention in the engineering of functional materials ranging from films …

The development of controlled/living polymerization methodologies has underpinned a
rapid expanse in our understanding of amphiphilic block copolymer self-assembly. In …

While low-dimensional (1D and 2D) polycatechol materials have been widely described for
a range of biomedical and surface engineering applications, very few examples have been …

Bortezomib (BTZ) is a first-in-class boronate proteasome inhibitor used for cancer therapy,
but its therapeutic efficacy is usually inhibited by dietary polyphenols due to boronate …

We describe a synthetic method for increasing and controlling the iron loading of synthetic
melanin nanoparticles and use the resulting materials to perform a systematic quantitative …