PMID- 32262410
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200408
IS  - 2050-7518 (Electronic)
IS  - 2050-750X (Linking)
VI  - 3
IP  - 14
DP  - 2015 Apr 14
TI  - Titania as a driving agent for DHICA polymerization: a novel strategy for the 
      design of bioinspired antimicrobial nanomaterials.
PG  - 2808-2815
LID - 10.1039/c5tb00039d [doi]
AB  - Organic materials are widely employed to tune surface chemistry and/or as 
      structuring agents of inorganic materials. Here, we propose a novel synthesis 
      approach whereby TiO(2) not only promotes 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid 
      (DHICA) polymerization but also acts as a templating agent for the formation 
      itself. Hybrid TiO(2)-DHICA melanin nanostructures have been produced, showing 
      biocide activity even under visible light conditions (activation). Hybrid 
      nanostructures have been analyzed and characterized by multiple techniques, 
      proving that both organic and inorganic phases strongly affect each other during 
      in situ formation, as far as it concerns both morphology and microstructure, 
      conferring unique biocide properties to the resulting nanomaterials. This 
      strategy ensures much more far-reaching implementation in the synthesis of hybrid 
      nanosystems, opening new perspectives in the design of multifunctional materials.
FAU - Vitiello, Giuseppe
AU  - Vitiello G
AD  - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, 
      Universita di Napoli "Federico II", p.le V. Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy. 
      giuseppina.luciani@unina.it.
FAU - Pezzella, Alessandro
AU  - Pezzella A
FAU - Zanfardino, Anna
AU  - Zanfardino A
FAU - Varcamonti, Mario
AU  - Varcamonti M
FAU - Silvestri, Brigida
AU  - Silvestri B
FAU - Costantini, Aniello
AU  - Costantini A
FAU - Branda, Francesco
AU  - Branda F
FAU - Luciani, Giuseppina
AU  - Luciani G
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150302
PL  - England
TA  - J Mater Chem B
JT  - Journal of materials chemistry. B
JID - 101598493
SB  - IM
EDAT- 2015/04/14 00:00
MHDA- 2015/04/14 00:01
CRDT- 2020/04/09 06:00
PHST- 2020/04/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/04/14 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/04/14 00:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1039/c5tb00039d [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Mater Chem B. 2015 Apr 14;3(14):2808-2815. doi: 10.1039/c5tb00039d. Epub 2015 
      Mar 2.