期刊
MACROMOLECULES
卷 55, 期 9, 页码 3493-3501出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00506
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21975167, 21774079]
- Research Fund Program of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional and Intelligent Hybrid Materials and Devices [2019B121203003]
- Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities
This study reported a method to improve the visible light absorption and photothermal performance of polydopamine (PDA) materials through doping with nitrogen-containing heterocycles. By structural tailoring, the PDA materials achieved better photothermal conversion, providing new insights for the design and construction of biomimetic photothermal materials.
As a typical type of melanin-inspired materials, polydopamine (PDA) has been widely used in photothermal conversion and energy harvesting applications due to its broad spectral absorption feature, but its limited absorption in the visible light region severely hinders further utilization. Although enhancing the visible light absorption and photothermal perform-ance of PDA is urgent, it is quite difficult to achieve this goal via structural tailoring strategies because of the complicated and disordered structure within PDA. To address this issue, we reported a facile approach involving nitrogen-containing hetero-cycles toward the design of two new kinds of PDA nanomaterials. The introduction of nitrogen-containing heterocycles greatly reduced the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of the molecular segments and then promoted electron delocalization in the local area. We verified the changes of energy bandgap and exciton decay of nitrogen-containing heterocycle-doped PDA through spectral analysis, density functional theory calculation, and electrostatic potential distribution on the molecular surface. Therefore, these heterocycle-doped PDAs exhibited improved visible light absorption and photothermal performances, which can be used in solar power generation applications. This work provides new opportunities for the rational design and structural tailoring of bioinspired photothermal materials.
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