Metal ions are ubiquitous in nature and play significant roles in assembling functional
materials in fields spanning chemistry, biology, and materials science. Metal–phenolic …

Polyphenols, the phenolic hydroxyl group‐containing organic molecules, are widely found in
natural plants and have shown beneficial effects on human health. Recently, polyphenol …

Hydrogels are a unique class of polymeric materials that possess an interconnected porous
network across various length scales from nano-to macroscopic dimensions and exhibit …

Tannic acid (TA), a natural polyphenol, is a hydrolysable amphiphilic tannin derivative of
gallic acid with several galloyl groups in its structure. Tannic acid interacts with various …

Methods for depositing thin films are important in generating functional materials for diverse
applications in a wide variety of fields. Over the last half-century, the layer-by-layer assembly …

Magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are emerging as an important class of biomedical functional
nanomaterials in areas such as hyperthermia, drug release, tissue engineering, theranostic …

Phenolics are ubiquitous in nature and have gained immense research attention because of
their unique physiochemical properties and widespread industrial use. In recent decades …

Due to the abuse of antibiotics and the emergence of multidrug resistant microorganisms,
medical devices, and related biomaterials are at high risk of microbial infection during use …

Coordination polymers (CPs) and their subset, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), can have
porous structures and hybrid physicochemical properties that are useful for diverse …

Tannic acid (TA), a large polyphenolic molecule, has long been known for use in food
additives, antioxidants, bio-sorbents, animal feed and adhesives due to its intrinsic …