The design of advanced functional materials with nanometer‐and micrometer‐scale control
over their properties is of considerable interest for both fundamental and applied studies …

The layer-by-layer assembly of sequentially adsorbed, alternating polyelectrolytes has
become increasingly important over the past two decades. The ease and versatility in …

An anti-CD133 antibody multilayer functionalized by heparin/collagen on an expanded
polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) graft was developed to accelerate early endothelialization …

Widely used in different biomedical applications, polyelectrolyte multilayers provide inter alia
an attractive way for manufacturing of bio-functionalized, stimuli responsive surface coatings …

Modern medicine uses a variety of synthetic materials and devices to treat medical
conditions and diseases. Biomedical devices such as coronary stents, vascular grafts, heart …

In vivo, corneal epithelial cells adhere on basement membranes that exhibit porosity on the
nanoscale with the diameters of pores and fibers ranging from 20 to 200 nm. Polyelectrolyte …

This article reviews the present state of small-diameter vascular substitution, the
mechanisms of graft failure and the ongoing matters of graft design, with particular attention …

Titanium oxide (TiO2) films were successfully deposited onto the polymer substrates of
polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), polyethylene (PE), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) …

Although the number of vascular surgeries using vascular grafts is increasing, they are
limited by vascular graft-related complications and size discrepancy. Current efforts to …

Here, the layer-by-layer method was applied to assemble films from chitosan paired with
either heparin or a semisynthetic cellulose sulfate (CS) that possessed a higher sulfation …