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ArticleChemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society2023

Electropolymerization of Polydopamine at Electrode-Supported Insulating Mesoporous Films.

H Samet Varol, Tilmann Herberger, Marius Kirsch, Joanna Mikolei, Lothar Veith, Venkataprasanna Kannan-Sampathkumar, Raoul D Brand, Christopher V Synatschke, Tanja Weil, Annette Andrieu-Brunsen

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Article in Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

H Samet VarolErnst-Berl Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8245-2243
Tilmann HerbergerMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Marius KirschErnst-Berl Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
Joanna MikoleiErnst-Berl Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
Lothar VeithMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Venkataprasanna Kannan-SampathkumarMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Raoul D BrandInstitute of Physical Chemistry, Justus-Liebig University, 35392 Giessen, Germany.
Christopher V SynatschkeMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Tanja WeilMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5906-7205
Annette Andrieu-BrunsenErnst-Berl Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-3047
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research · DETechnische Universität Darmstadt · DEJustus-Liebig-Universität Gießen · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bioinspired, stimuli-responsive, polymer-functionalized mesoporous films are promising platforms for precisely regulating nanopore transport toward applications in water management, iontronics, catalysis, sensing, drug delivery, or energy conversion. Nanopore technologies still require new, facile, and effective nanopore functionalization with multi- and stimuli-responsive polymers to reach these complicated application targets. In recent years, zwitterionic and multifunctional polydopamine (PDA) films deposited on planar surfaces by electropolymerization have helped surfaces respond to various external stimuli such as light, temperature, moisture, and pH. However, PDA has not been used to functionalize nanoporous films, where the PDA-coating could locally regulate the ionic nanopore transport. This study investigates the electropolymerization of homogeneous thin PDA films to functionalize nanopores of mesoporous silica films. We investigate the effect of different mesoporous film structures and the number of electropolymerization cycles on the presence of PDA at mesopores and mesoporous film surfaces. Our spectroscopic, microscopic, and electrochemical analysis reveals that the amount and location (pores and surface) of deposited PDA at mesoporous films is related to the combination of the number of electropolymerization cycles and the mesoporous film thickness and pore size. In view of the application of the proposed PDA-functionalized mesoporous films in areas requiring ion transport control, we studied the ion nanopore transport of the films by cyclic voltammetry. We realized that the amount of PDA in the nanopores helps to limit the overall ionic transport, while the pH-dependent transport mechanism of pristine silica films remains unchanged. It was found that (i) the pH-dependent deprotonation of PDA and silica walls and (ii) the insulation of the indium-tin oxide (ITO) surface by increasing the amount of PDA within the mesoporous silica film affect the ionic nanopore transport.

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