Smart surfaces based on thermo-responsive polymer brushes prepared from L-alanine derivatives for cell capture and release.

Shen, Yong; Li, Guannan; Ma, Yinan; Yu, Deyang; Sun, Jing; Li, Zhibo · Soft Matter · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Two novel thermo-responsive polymer brushes were prepared from L-alanine derivatives using the surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) technique. The temperature-induced cell capture and release on both polymer brush modified substrates were further explored.

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