“…The deconvolution of the O 1s spectra illustrated in Figure 10c,d resulted into four main peaks, O-C=O, C=O, C-O, and C-O-C, at binding energies of~530, 531, 533, and 535 eV, respectively [4]. The N 1s peak emerged in the GO-PDA spectra was deconvoluted and fitted into three main peaks at binding energies of 402, 399, and 396 eV corresponding to primary amine (N-H 2 ), secondary amine (N-H), and aromatic/tertiary amine (N-C) functional groups, respectively, as illustrated in Figure 10e [53][54][55]. The primary amine is linked to the dopamine, the secondary amine corresponds to the polydopamine and the tertiary amine corresponds to the tautomers of 5,6-dihydroxyindole and 5,6-indolequinone [54].…”