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The structural impact of water sorption on device-quality melanin thin films

Andrew J. Clulow, A. Bernardus Mostert, Margarita Sheliakina, Andrew Nelson, Norman Booth, Paul L. Burn, Ian R. Gentle, Paul Meredith Orcid Logo, Bernard Mostert Orcid Logo

Soft Matter, Volume: 13, Issue: 21, Pages: 3954 - 3965

Swansea University Authors: Paul Meredith Orcid Logo, Bernard Mostert Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1039/c6sm02420c

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The melanins are a class of pigmentary bio-macromolecules ubiquitous in the biosphere. They possess an intriguing set of physico-chemical properties and have in particular been shown to exhibit hybrid protonic-electronic electrical conductivity, a feature derived from a process termed chemical self-...

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Published in: Soft Matter
ISSN: 1744-683X 1744-6848
Published: 2017
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title The structural impact of water sorption on device-quality melanin thin films
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title_short The structural impact of water sorption on device-quality melanin thin films
title_full The structural impact of water sorption on device-quality melanin thin films
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description The melanins are a class of pigmentary bio-macromolecules ubiquitous in the biosphere. They possess an intriguing set of physico-chemical properties and have in particular been shown to exhibit hybrid protonic-electronic electrical conductivity, a feature derived from a process termed chemical self-doping driven by the sorption of water. Although the mechanism underlying the electrical conduction has been established, how the sorbed water interacts with the melanin structure at the physical level has not. Herein we use neutron reflectometry to study changes in the structure of synthetic melanin thin films as a function of H2O and D2O vapour pressure. Water is found to be taken up evenly throughout the films, and by employing the contrast effect, the existence of labile protons through reversible deuterium exchange is demonstrated. Finally, we determine a sorption isotherm to enable quantification of the melanin-water interactions.
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