Issue 75, 2015

Fabricating a morphology tunable patterned bio-inspired polydopamine film directly via microcontact printing

Abstract

A robust and simple strategy of microcontact printing is provided to fabricate micro-patterned polydopamine (PDA) films with tunable morphology achieved by altering the concentration of PDA “ink” solution. Photoactive sites on the surface of patterned PDA films allow the further growth of polymer brushes by self-initiated photografting and photopolymerization (SIPGP) endowing the bio-inspired PDA films with various functionalities.

Graphical abstract: Fabricating a morphology tunable patterned bio-inspired polydopamine film directly via microcontact printing

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Jun 2015
Accepted
08 Jul 2015
First published
09 Jul 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 60990-60992

Fabricating a morphology tunable patterned bio-inspired polydopamine film directly via microcontact printing

Y. Hou, P. Xiao, J. Zhang, M. Peng, W. Lu, Y. Huang, C. Ouyang and T. Chen, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 60990 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA10829B

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