Stimuli-responsive polydopamine-based smart materials

P Yang, F Zhu, Z Zhang, Y Cheng, Z Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli responsiveness has long been a fascinating feature of smart material design.
Polydopamine (PDA), a nature inspired polymeric pigment, exhibits excellent photo …

Phenolic-enabled nanotechnology: versatile particle engineering for biomedicine

D Wu, J Zhou, MN Creyer, W Yim, Z Chen… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Phenolics are ubiquitous in nature and have gained immense research attention because of
their unique physiochemical properties and widespread industrial use. In recent decades …

Melanin-Inspired Composite Materials: From Nanoarchitectonics to Applications

S Liu, R Ding, J Yuan, X Zhang, X Deng… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Synthetic melanin is a mimic of natural melanin analogue with intriguing properties such as
metal–ion chelation, redox activity, adhesion, and broadband absorption. Melanin-inspired …

Enhanced Ultrasound Contrast of Renal‐Clearable Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles

Y Tan, M Chen, H Chen, J Wu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Renal‐clearable nanoparticles are typically fast eliminated through the free glomerular
filtration, which show weak interaction with the renal compartments and negligible …

PSMA-targeted melanin-like nanoparticles as a multifunctional nanoplatform for prostate cancer theranostics

L Dai, G Shen, Y Wang, P Yang, H Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is highly expressed on the surface of most
prostate tumor cells and is considered a promising target for prostate cancer imaging and …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced photoacoustic imaging in tissue-mimicking phantoms using polydopamine-shelled perfluorocarbon emulsion droplets

MLP Vidallon, E Salimova, SA Crawford, BM Teo… - Ultrasonics …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current work features process parameters for the ultrasound (25 kHz)-assisted
fabrication of polydopamine-shelled perfluorocarbon (PDA/PFC) emulsion droplets with …

Polydopamine-Based Nanoprobes Application in Optical Biosensing

A Menichetti, A Mavridi-Printezi, D Mordini, M Montalti - Biosensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polydopamine (PDA), the synthetic counterpart of melanin, is a widely investigated bio-
inspired material for its chemical and photophysical properties, and in the last few years, bio …

The application of organic nanomaterials for bioimaging, drug delivery, and therapy: spanning various domains

M Xu, W Yim, J Zhou, J Zhou, Z Jin… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Organic nanomaterials increasingly generate interest from diverse fields spanning
fundamental and clinical research, biotechnology, and nanomedicine. Organic …

Deciphering the mechanistic basis for perfluoroalkyl‐protein interactions

A Lawanprasert, JN Sloand… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although rarely used in nature, fluorine has emerged as an important elemental ingredient
in the design of proteins with altered folding, stability, oligomerization propensities, and …

Tracking the heat-triggered phase change of polydopamine-shelled, perfluorocarbon emulsion droplets into microbubbles using neutron scattering

MLP Vidallon, LW Giles, MJ Pottage, CSG Butler… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Perfluorocarbon emulsion droplets are hybrid colloidal materials with vast applications,
ranging from imaging to drug delivery, due to their controllable phase transition into …