Scalable Fabrication of Polydopamine Nanotubes Based on Curcumin Crystals

Junhui Xue; Weichao Zheng; Le Wang; Zhaoxia Jin

doi:10.1021/acsbiomaterials.6b00102

Scalable Fabrication of Polydopamine Nanotubes Based on Curcumin Crystals

ACS Biomater Sci Eng. 2016 Apr 11;2(4):489-493. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.6b00102. Epub 2016 Mar 31.

Authors

Junhui Xue¹, Weichao Zheng¹, Le Wang¹, Zhaoxia Jin¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Renmin University of China, No. 59, Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100872, P. R. China.

PMID: 33465852
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.6b00102

Abstract

Herein we for the first time demonstrated a scalable and simple fabrication of polydopamine nanotubes by using curcumin crystal as templates. BET surface area of obtained polydopamine nanotubes is 51.9 m²/g. Polydopamine nanotubes show great potential as biocompatible porous nanomaterials.

Keywords: curcumin; nanotubes; polydopamine; template-fabrication.