Scalable Fabrication of Polydopamine Nanotubes Based
on Curcumin Crystals

Xue, Junhui; Zheng, Weichao; Wang, Le; Jin, Zhaoxia

doi:10.1021/acsbiomaterials.6b00102.s001

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Scalable Fabrication of Polydopamine Nanotubes Based on Curcumin Crystals

journal contribution

posted on 2016-03-30, 00:00 authored by Junhui Xue, Weichao Zheng, Le Wang, Zhaoxia Jin

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.