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Water-soluble dopamine-based polymers for photoacoustic imaging

Tatjana Repenko, Stanley Fokong, Laura De Laporte, Dennis Go, Twan Lammers, Alexander J. C. Kuehne

Chemical Communications · 2015 · 58 citations · 17 references

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Here we present a facile synthetic method yielding a linear form of polydopamine via Kumada-coupling, which can be converted into water-soluble melanin, generating high contrast in photoacoustic imaging.

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