Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Dr. Toby L. Nelson, from Oklahoma State University, will be presenting a seminar titled "Redefining Melanin: From Eumelanin- inspired materials to structure- property relationships." Melanin is a unique class of natural occurring pigments found in the hair, eyes, skin and the brain of mammals. Eumelanin is the black-brown variety of Melanin and understood to be a biosynthesized heterogeneous macromolecule containing 5,6-dihydroxyindole and 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxyic acid. Nature has chosen this substance with such complexity and undefined structure as the centerpiece for so [...]