Issue 28, 2015
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Chemical Communications

Water-soluble dopamine-based polymers for photoacoustic imaging†

Tatjana Repenko,a   Stanley Fokong,b   Laura De Laporte,a   Dennis Go,a   Fabian Kiessling,b   Twan Lammersbc  and  Alexander J. C. Kuehne*a  

* Corresponding authors

a DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, RWTH Aachen University, Forckenbeckstraße 50, 52074 Aachen, Germany
E-mail: kuehne@dwi.rwth-aachen.de

b Department of Experimental Molecular Imaging, University Clinic and Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelstraße 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany

c Department of Controlled Drug Delivery, MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, P. O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

Abstract

Here we present a facile synthetic method yielding a linear form of polydopamine via Kumada-coupling, which can be converted into water-soluble melanin, generating high contrast in photoacoustic imaging.

Graphical abstract: Water-soluble dopamine-based polymers for photoacoustic imaging

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC00039D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
03 Jan 2015
Accepted
04 Feb 2015
First published
04 Feb 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 6084-6087

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Water-soluble dopamine-based polymers for photoacoustic imaging

T. Repenko, S. Fokong, L. De Laporte, D. Go, F. Kiessling, T. Lammers and A. J. C. Kuehne, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 6084 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC00039D

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