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Surface Assembly of Catechol-Functionalized Poly(l-lysine)-graft-poly(ethylene glycol) Copolymer on Titanium Exploiting Combined Electrostatically Driven Self-Organization and Biomimetic Strong Adhesion

Nonfouling coatings, based on surface-tethered, hydrophilic polymer chains, have widespread application in areas such as biosensing, medical devices, and biotechnology. Self-organization of polymers is a particularly attractive approach given its simplicit ...

2010

"Functional Poly(ethylene glycol)": PEG-Based Random Copolymers with 1,2-Diol Side Chains and Terminal Amino Functionality

Frederik Roman Wurm

A series of poly(ethylene glycol-co-isopropylidene glyceryl glycidyl ether) (P(EO-co-IGG)) random copolymers with different fractions of 1,2-isopropylidene glyceryl glycidyl ether (IGG) units was synthesized. After acidic hydrolysis a new type of "function ...

2010

Polymer Brushes as Substrates for Microarray Applications

Raphaël Barbey

The development of innovative bioanalytical technologies that enable the discovery of new therapeutics or the creation of systems for rapid, accurate and parallel analyses has gained an extraordinary interest in the biomedical sector in the last 10-15 year ...

EPFL2010

Assessing the Role of Poly(ethylehe glycol-bl-propylene sulfide) (PEG-PPS) Block Copolymers in the Preparation of Carbon Nanotube Biocompatible Dispersions

Davide Demurtas, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Conlin O'Neil

Amphiphilic block copolymers based on hydrophobic polysulfides (poly(propylene sulfide), PPS) and hydrophilic polyethers (poly(ethylene glycol), PEG) have been used to solubilize and disperse single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). The obtained highly conc ...

2010

Development of a medical instrument to induce and control hydrogel polymerization in-situ

Dominique Pioletti, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Christophe Moser

Background - Nucleus pulposus degeneration is a very common musculo-skeletal pathology, which is in part responsible for low back pain, a pandemic medical problem. Artificial hydrogels are being investigated by research group around the world for the purpo ...

2010

Synthesis of Functional Polydepsipeptides via Direct Ring-Opening Polymerization and Post-Polymerization Modification

Harm-Anton Klok, Nadja Franz

This contribution explores different strategies for the synthesis of side chain functional polydepsipeptides. First, the ring-opening polymerization of side chain functional morpholine-2,5-diones is revisited and the optimized reaction conditions used for ...

2010

Room Temperature, Aqueous Post-Polymerization Modification of Glycidyl Methacrylate-Containing Polymer Brushes Prepared via Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Harm-Anton Klok, Raphaël Barbey

This manuscript reports on the post-polymerization modification of poly(glycidyl methacrylate) (PGMA) and PGMA-co-poly(2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PGMA(x)-co-PDEAEMA(y)) (co)polymer brushes prepared via surface-initiated atom transfer radical poly ...

2010

Magnetic nanocrystal modified epoxy photoresist for microfabrication of AFM probes

Jürgen Brugger, Cristina Martin Olmos

Nanocomposites based on an organic polymer and inorganic nanocrystals (NCs) represent a class of high impact functional materials able to convey the unique size and shape dependent properties of nano-objects to highly processable resists.[1] In this work, ...

Procedia Chemistry2010

Nucleation Dependent Polymerization of Amyloid-ß (Aß) as an Important Determinant of Aß Amyloid Formation and Neurotoxicity

Mohammad Asad Jan Qureshi

Aggregation and fibril formation of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides play a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aβ peptides, principally comprising of 40 or 42 amino acid residues (Aβ40 and Aβ42), are produced by proteolytic processing of ...

EPFL2010

Synthesis of functional polymers by post-polymerization modification

Harm-Anton Klok, Matthew Gibson, Marc Gauthier

(Figure Presented) Post-polymerization modification is based on the direct polymerization or copolymerization of monomers bearing chemoselective handles that are inert towards the polymerization conditions but can be quantitatively converted in a subsequen ...

2009

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