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Micropatterning of hydrophilic polyacrylamide brushes to resist cell adhesion but promote protein retention
Jianwen Hou1, Qiang Shi, Wei Ye
1State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China. shiqiang@ciac.ac.cn yinjh@ciac.ac.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 21, 2014
Abstract:
Contrary to a prevailing concept on protein adsorption and cell adhesion, novel micropatterned polyacrylamide (PAAm) brushes that can resist cell adhesion but promote protein retention are created through patterning of ATRP initiators and surface-initiated ATRP on a polymer substrate.
