Enzyme catalysis has been attracting increasing interest in the past twenty years.
Nevertheless, most reports concerning enzyme catalysis have been carried out using single …

After more than four billion years of evolution, nature has created a large number of
fascinating living organisms, which show numerous peculiar structures and wonderful …

Multienzymatic cascade reactions are a most important technology to succeed in industrial
process development, such as synthesis of pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and nutritional …

The observation and investigation of phenomena in the natural world can inspire the
discovery of new materials and a greater understanding of the underlying physical …

Polydopamine (PDA) fluorescent materials have recently gained much attention due to their
unique physicochemical and biological properties. Since the first report on fluorescent PDA …

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

Herein we propose a new structure for poly (dopamine), a synthetic eumelanin that has
found broad utility as an antifouling agent. Commercially available 3-hydroxytyramine …

Enzymes are outstanding (bio) catalysts, not solely on account of their ability to increase
reaction rates by up to several orders of magnitude but also for the high degree of substrate …

Catechols are found in nature taking part in a remarkably broad scope of biochemical
processes and functions. Though not exclusively, such versatility may be traced back to …

Polymer coatings are of central importance for many biomedical applications. In the past few
years, poly (dopamine)(PDA) has attracted considerable interest for various types of …