Reactive polymer coatings for biological applications
Journal
ACS Symposium Series
Journal Volume
977
Pages
283-298
ISBN
9780841239661
Date Issued
2008
Author(s)
Abstract
The design of biologically active surfaces offers a new dimension to the development of advanced materials for biomedical and microfluidic applications. Our approach to creating these surfaces is via the fabrication of vapor-based reactive polymer coatings, which provide sophisticated functional groups for the immobilization of biological ligands. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) polymerization has been used to prepare a wide spectrum of functionalized poly(p- xylylenes). The applicability of a few of these reactive surfaces as stable platforms for biomimetic modifications is discussed in this review. ? 2008 American Chemical Society.
Type
conference paper