Background Melanin is a skin pigment that gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes. The
accumulation or over production of melanin can lead to aesthetic problems as well as …

Melanin, especially integumentary melanin, interacts in numerous ways with
electromagnetic radiation, leading to a set of critical functions, including radiation protection …

In acute skin injury, healing is impaired by the excessive release of reactive oxygen species
(ROS). Melanin, an efficient scavenger of radical species in the skin, performs a key role in …

Date palm fruits (Phoenix dactylifera L.) were found to contain high levels of allomelanin (1.2–
5.1%). The melanin is localized in the tanniferous cells between the inner and outer …

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging has proved versatile for many biomedical applications from
drug delivery tracking to disease diagnostics and postoperative surveillance. It recently …

Herein, we present the facile synthesis of poly (pyrogallol) biopolymers and their application
as antibacterial agents. Pyrogallol is a class of phenolic compounds that can be found in …

Gold nanorods (GNRs) have attracted great interest for photo-mediated biomedicines due to
their tunable and high optical absorption, high photothermal conversion efficiency and facile …

Allomelanin is a class of nitrogen-free melanin mostly found in fungi and, like all naturally
occurring melanins, is hydrophilic. Herein, we develop a facile method to modify synthetic …

Quench-type electrochemiluminescence (ECL) immunosensors are appealing for detecting
small molecule contaminants in signal-on mode, for which efficient ECL quenchers are …

Polymer nanocapsules have demonstrated significant value in materials science and
biomedical technology, but require complicated and time‐consuming synthetic steps. We …