Advances in biodegradable electronic skin: Material progress and recent applications in sensing, robotics, and human–machine interfaces

M Zarei, G Lee, SG Lee, K Cho - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid growth of the electronics industry and proliferation of electronic materials and
telecommunications technologies has led to the release of a massive amount of untreated …

Microbial melanin: Recent advances in biosynthesis, extraction, characterization, and applications

S Singh, SB Nimse, DE Mathew, A Dhimmar… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Melanin is a common name for a group of biopolymers with the dominance of potential
applications in medical sciences, cosmeceutical, bioremediation, and bioelectronic …

Flexible polydopamine bioelectronics

Z Jin, L Yang, S Shi, T Wang, G Duan… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible bioelectronics have attracted increasing research interests due to their wide range
of potential applications in human motion detection, personal healthcare monitoring, and …

Microbial production of melanin and its various applications

AN Tran-Ly, C Reyes, FWMR Schwarze… - World Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Melanins are natural biopolymers that are known to contribute to different biological
processes and to protect organisms from adverse environmental conditions. During the past …

Organic bioelectronics: bridging the signaling gap between biology and technology

DT Simon, EO Gabrielsson, K Tybrandt… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The electronics surrounding us in our daily lives rely almost exclusively on electrons as the
dominant charge carrier. In stark contrast, biological systems rarely use electrons but rather …

Melanins and melanogenesis: from pigment cells to human health and technological applications

M d'Ischia, K Wakamatsu, F Cicoira… - Pigment cell & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
During the past decade, melanins and melanogenesis have attracted growing interest for a
broad range of biomedical and technological applications. The burst of polydopamine …

Melanins: skin pigments and much more—types, structural models, biological functions, and formation routes

F Solano - New Journal of Science, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This review presents a general view of all types of melanin in all types of organisms. Melanin
is frequently considered just an animal cutaneous pigment and is treated separately from …

Catechol‐based biomimetic functional materials

J Sedó, J Saiz‐Poseu, F Busqué… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Surface engineering of polymer membranes via mussel-inspired chemistry

HC Yang, J Luo, Y Lv, P Shen, ZK Xu - Journal of Membrane Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, polymer membranes are becoming more and more compelling due
to their growing demand in environment, energy and health fields. Many efforts have been …

Polydopamine—a nature-inspired polymer coating for biomedical science

ME Lynge, R van der Westen, A Postma, B Städler - Nanoscale, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …