Polydopamine is one of the simplest and most versatile approaches to functionalizing
material surfaces, having been inspired by the adhesive nature of catechols and amines in …

Marine mussels secret protein‐based adhesives, which enable them to anchor to various
surfaces in a saline, intertidal zone. Mussel foot proteins (Mfps) contain a large abundance …

Magnetic nanoparticles have received tremendous attention in diverse fields because of
their unique nanoscale physicochemical properties and the potential for a wide range of …

Composite materials are made from two or more constituent materials with distinct physical
or chemical properties that, when combined, produce a material with characteristics which …

The modification of surfaces by the deposition of a robust overlayer provides an excellent
handle with which to tune the properties of a bulk substrate to those of interest. Such control …

Bionanotechnology has now become firmly established in its own right as one of the
principle and focused subdisciplines within nanotechnology.(1-10) Bionanotechnology can …

After several billions of years, nature still makes decisions on its own to identify, develop,
and direct the most effective material for phenomena/challenges faced. Likewise, and …

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 …

The attachment strategy based on catecholic chemistry has been arousing renewed interest
since the work on polymerized catecholic amine (polydopamine)(Messersmith et al …

Throughout the last decades, magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) have gained tremendous
interest in different fields of applications like biomedicine (eg, magnetic resonance imaging …