	US 12,441,890 B2
	Selenium-containing analogues of pheomelanin and related materials and methods of making
Nathan C. Gianneschi, Evanston, IL (US); and Wei Cao, Evanston, IL (US)
Assigned to Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US)
Appl. No. 17/770,247
Filed by Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/057902 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 19, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/087076, PCT Pub. Date May 6, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/928,129, filed on Oct. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0193039 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. C09B 69/10 (2006.01); B82Y 40/00 (2011.01); C07F 11/00 (2006.01)

CPC C09B 69/104 (2013.01) [B82Y 40/00 (2013.01); C07F 11/00 (2013.01)]

13 Claims

1. An artificial selenomelanin material comprising:

one or more selenomelanin polymers;

wherein the one or more selenomelanin polymers comprise a plurality of covalently bonded selenomelanin base units; and wherein a chemical formula of each of the one or more selenomelanin base units comprises at least one selenium atom.