Abstract

Dopamine is an efficient building block to produce a versatile coating polymer able to adhere on a vast repertoire of material surfaces. Polydopamine, a dark-bioinspired polymer, is produced by the self-assembly of the dopamine under aerobic conditions in an alkaline environment. The presence of oxygen is crucial for self-polymerization of dopamine in aqueous solution. In this manuscript we show that is possible to drive the polymerization in absence of oxygen exploiting the metabolism of anaerobic photosynthetic purple bacteria.Graphical

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