An electrochemical study of natural and chemically controlled eumelanin
| Autor: | Clara Santato, Alessandro Pezzella, Eduardo Di Mauro, Ri Xu, Francesca Soavi, C. T. Prontera |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Xu, Ri, Prontera, Carmela Tania, Di Mauro, Eduardo, Pezzella, Alessandro, Soavi, Francesca, Santato, Clara |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cuttlefish
Materials science Antioxidant lcsh:Biotechnology medicine.medical_treatment 02 engineering and technology 010402 general chemistry Photochemistry Electrochemistry 01 natural sciences Melanin Pigment chemistry.chemical_compound Ink sac Engineering (all) lcsh:TP248.13-248.65 medicine General Materials Science Sepia General Engineering DHICA 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology lcsh:QC1-999 0104 chemical sciences chemistry visual_art visual_art.visual_art_medium Materials Science (all) 0210 nano-technology lcsh:Physics |
| Zdroj: | APL Materials, Vol 5, Iss 12, Pp 126108-126108-8 (2017) |
| Popis: | Eumelanin is the most common form of the pigment melanin in the human body, with functions including antioxidant behavior, metal chelation, and free radical scavenging. This biopigment is of interest for biologically derived batteries and supercapacitors. In this work, we characterized the voltammetric properties of chemically controlled eumelanins produced from 5,6-dihydroxyindole (DHI) and 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA) building blocks, namely, DHI-melanin, DHICA-melanin, and natural eumelanin, extracted from the ink sac of cuttlefish, Sepia melanin. Eumelanin electrodes were studied for their cyclic voltammetric properties in acidic buffers including Na+, K+, NH4+, and Cu2+ ions. |
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