Understanding and controlling interfaces has proven to be key to a very wide range of
applications, from optical and electronic materials 1, 2 to energy storage and production, 3 …

This review focuses on the attachment of polymer brushes to polymeric biomaterial
substrates by chemical surface modification methods for biomedical applications. In the first …

Detection of rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood is a challenging, but
necessary, task in order to diagnose early onset of metastatic cancer and to monitor …

Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is currently one of the most often used synthetic
polymerization methods to prepare well-defined copolymers with complex architecture. This …

The review focuses on the combination of surface topography and surface chemical
modification with the grafting of polymer chains to develop optimal material interfaces for …

Gold nanoparticle layers (GNPLs) refer to a kind of nanostructured surfaces with
immobilized gold nanoparticles (GNPs) at high density on a substrate. These materials not …

Micro-or nano-surface topography of a biomaterial can improve various cellular activities for
obtaining functional tissues. Electrospun fibers can gain further functionality when …

Efficient control of the self-renewal and pluripotency maintenance of embryonic stem cell
(ESC) is a prerequisite for translating stem cell technologies to clinical applications. Surface …

For potential applications in the isolation and enrichment of circulating tumor cells (CTCs),
we have developed gold nanoparticle layers (GNPLs) of different roughness modified with …

Biomaterial-associated infections often arise from contaminating bacteria adhering to an
implant surface that are introduced during surgical implantation and not effectively …