Recent Progress in Optical Sensors for Biomedical Diagnostics [PDF]
, 2020 In recent years, several types of optical sensors have been probed for their aptitude in healthcare biosensing, making their applications in biomedical diagnostics a rapidly evolving subject.
Altintas, Zeynep, Pirzada, Muqsit
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Biomineral Amorphous Lasers through Light-Scattering Surfaces Assembled by Electrospun Fiber Templates [PDF]
, 2017 New materials aim at exploiting the great control of living organisms over molecular architectures and minerals. Optical biomimetics has been widely developed by microengineering, leading to photonic components with order resembling those found in plants
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Research Progress on Polydopamine Nanoparticles for Tissue Engineering
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that aims to develop biological substitutes for the replacement, repair, or enhancement of tissue function.
Yanmei Tang, Yu Tan, Kaili Lin, Min Zhu
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Polydopamine nanoparticles kill cancer cells
RSC Advances, 2018 Polydopamine (PD) is a synthetic melanin analogue of growing importance in the field of biomedicine, especially with respect to cancer research, due, in part, to its biocompatibility.
Celia Nieto +3 more
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Polydopamine-Based Nanocarriers for Photosensitizer Delivery [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019 Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has emerged as a non-invasive modality for treating tumors while a photosensitizer (PS) plays an indispensable role in PDT. Nevertheless, free PSs are limited by their low light stability, rapid blood clearance, and poor water solubility.
Yuxuan Xiong +6 more
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High Relaxivity Gadolinium‐Polydopamine Nanoparticles
Small, 2017 AbstractThis study reports the preparation of a series of gadolinium‐polydopamine nanoparticles (GdPD‐NPs) with tunable metal loadings. GdPD‐NPs are analyzed by nuclear magnetic relaxation dispersion and with a 7‐tesla (T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner.
Mauro Botta +11 more
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Deposition Mechanism and Properties of Thin Polydopamine Films for High Added Value Applications in Surface Science at the Nanoscale [PDF]
, 2016 Polydopamine films have been introduced by Messersmith et al. as a possible “versatile” surface functionalization method allowing to coat the surface of almost all known materials even superhydrophobic surfaces.
Ball, Vincent +7 more
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Polydopamine-mediated immobilization of alginate lyase to prevent P. aeruginosa adhesion [PDF]
, 2016 Given alginate’s contribution to Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence, it has long been considered a promising target for interventional therapies, which have been performed by using the enzyme alginate lyase.
Alkawash +44 more
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Polydopamine/Transferrin Hybrid Nanoparticles for Targeted Cell-Killing
Nanomaterials, 2018 Polydopamine can form biocompatible particles that convert light into heat. Recently, a protocol has been optimized to synthesize polydopamine/protein hybrid nanoparticles that retain the biological function of proteins, and combine it with the stimuli ...
Daniel Hauser +9 more
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Antibiofilm Nitric Oxide-Releasing Polydopamine Coatings
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019 The growing number of patient morbidity related to nosocomial infections has placed an importance on the development of new antibacterial coatings for medical devices. Here, we utilize the versatile adhesion property of polydopamine (pDA) to design an antibacterial coating that possesses low-fouling and nitric oxide (NO)-releasing capabilities.
Zahra Sadrearhami +7 more
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