Dang Nhan Thi Thanh, Le Thang Quoc, Duc Cuong Nguyen, Linh Nguyen Le My, Le Lam Son, Tran Tien Dong, Nguyen Hai Phong
Department of Chemistry, Hue University of Education, Hue University, 34 Le Loi, Hue 530000, Vietnam.
Department of Chemistry, Hue University of Sciences, Hue University, 77 Nguyen Hue, Hue 530000, Vietnam.
ACS Omega. 2024 Mar 15;9(12):13680-13691. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.3c07894. eCollection 2024 Mar 26.
Exploring structural biomimicry is a great opportunity to replicate hierarchical frameworks inspired by nature in advanced functional materials for boosting new applications. In this work, we present the biomimetic integration of polythiophene into chitosan nanofibrils in a twisted Bouligand structure to afford free-standing macroscopic composite membranes with electrochemical functionality. By considering the integrity of the Bouligand structure in crab shells, we can produce large, free-standing chitosan nanofibril membranes with iridescent colors and flexible toughness. These unique structured features lead the chitosan membranes to host functional additives to mimic hierarchically layered composites. We used the iridescent chitosan nanofibrils as a photonic platform to investigate the host-guest combination between thiophene and chitosan through oxidative polymerization to fabricate homogeneous polythiophene-wrapped chitosan composites. This biomimetic incorporation fully retains the twisted Bouligand organization of nanofibrils in the polymerized assemblies, thus giving rise to free-standing macroscopic electrochemical membranes. Our further experiments are the modification of the biomimetic polythiophene-wrapped chitosan composites on a glassy carbon electrode to design a three-electrode system for simultaneous electrochemical detection of uric acid, xanthine, hypoxanthine, and caffeine at trace concentrations.
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