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Dopamine modified polyaniline with improved adhesion, dispersibility, and biocompatibility

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Dopamine (DA), a biological neurotransmitter which has a similar structure to the essential adhesive component of mussel protein, was here used to modify polyaniline (PANI) via a one-step chemical oxidization method. The as-fabricated DA-PANI resulted from different DA to aniline (An) mole ratio showed different morphology. Compared to pure PANI, the modified PANI exhibited greatly enhanced adhesion force to the substrate. In addition, the biocompatibility and dispersibility of DA-modified PANI were also significantly improved compared with pure PANI. More importantly, the incorporation of poor conductive PDA did not enormously weaken the electrical conductivity of PANI, and it still showed good electrical conductivity as the DA/An mole ratio was not higher than 0.48.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (31271009, 81271689), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2011121001), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Fujian Province University and the Xiamen Municipal Science and Technology project (3502Z20144026).

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    Jilin Tan, Zhuo Xie, Yanan Sun, Wei Shi & Dongtao Ge

  2. Department of Stomatology, The Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361004, China

    Zhong Zhang

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Tan, J., Xie, Z., Zhang, Z. et al. Dopamine modified polyaniline with improved adhesion, dispersibility, and biocompatibility. J Mater Sci 53, 447–455 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-017-1520-9

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