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J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18, 4242 - 4245, DOI: 10.1039/b808467j


Polyelectrolyte multilayer coatings that resist protein adsorption at rest and under stretching

Andreas Reisch, Joseph Hemmerlé, Jean-Claude Voegel, Eric Gonthier, Gero Decher, Nadia Benkirane-Jessel, Armelle Chassepot, Damien Mertz, Philippe Lavalle, Philippe Mésini and Pierre Schaaf


A surface coating based on polyelectrolyte multilayers containing phosphorylcholine modified poly(acrylic acid) (PAA-PC) is shown to strongly prevent protein adsorption even under mechanical stretching of the substrate.

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