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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 120, Issue 11, Pages 6262-6268Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00226
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A combination of biomedical and technological applications is generating, over the past decades, the well established interest toward melanins and melanogenesis. Several compounds have been explored to promote/catalyze oxidative polymerization of melanogenic precursors, such as 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA), to melanin-like biopolymers in vitro. TiO2 has shown a photocatalytic activity driving DHICA polymerization and leading to the formation of melanin-TiO2 hybrid nanostructures with unique biocide behavior even under visible light. However, the mechanism of melanin formation in those hybrids is not yet well understood although a ligand to metal charge transfer (LMCT) process involving DHICA and Ti4+ ions was hypothesized. Here, we focus on melanin formation and apply a complementary analysis, by using photoluminescence (PL), UV-vis, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to reveal the mechanism of DHICA polymerization in the presence of a TiO2-sol. This study discloses TiO2 potentialities to drive and template DHICA polymerization to melanin via LMCT-based photo-oxidative process.
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