title: Recent developments in polydopamine: an emerging soft matter for surface modification and biomedical applications.
abstract: After more than four billion years of evolution, nature has created a large number of fascinating living organisms, which show numerous peculiar structures and wonderful properties. Nature can provide sources of plentiful inspiration for scientists to create various materials and devices with special functions and uses. Since Messersmith proposed the fabrication of multifunctional coatings through mussel-inspired chemistry, this field has attracted considerable attention for its promising and exiciting applications. Polydopamine (PDA), an emerging soft matter, has been demonstrated to be a crucial component in mussel-inspired chemistry. In this review, the recent developments of PDA for mussel-inspired surface modification are summarized and discussed. The biomedical applications of PDA-based materials are also highlighted. We believe that this review can provide important and timely information regarding mussel-inspired chemistry and will be of great interest for scientists in the chemistry, materials, biology, medicine and interdisciplinary fields.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang 330031, China. Xiaoyongzhang@1980@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Meiying
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang 330031, China. Xiaoyongzhang@1980@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Guangjian
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and the Tsinghua Center for Frontier Polymer Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China. weiyen@tsinghua.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Ke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang 330031, China. Xiaoyongzhang@1980@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and the Tsinghua Center for Frontier Polymer Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China. weiyen@tsinghua.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang 330031, China. Xiaoyongzhang@1980@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Xiaoyong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and the Tsinghua Center for Frontier Polymer Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China. weiyen@tsinghua.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wei
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D040761:Biomimetic Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D049872:Bivalvia; D007211:Indoles / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D007211:Indoles; D011108:Polymers; C568283:polydopamine