Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization: state-of-the-art, opportunities, and challenges in surface and interface engineering with polymer brushes

JO Zoppe, NC Ataman, P Mocny, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)-based thermoresponsive surfaces provide new types of biomedical applications

K Nagase, M Yamato, H Kanazawa, T Okano - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermoresponsive surfaces, prepared by grafting of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PIPAAm)
or its copolymers, have been investigated for biomedical applications. Thermoresponsive …

Surface-initiated polymer brushes in the biomedical field: applications in membrane science, biosensing, cell culture, regenerative medicine and antibacterial coatings

M Krishnamoorthy, S Hakobyan, M Ramstedt… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
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 …

Thermoresponsive interfaces obtained using poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)-based copolymer for bioseparation and tissue engineering applications

K Nagase - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAAm) is the most well-known and widely used
stimuli-responsive polymer in the biomedical field owing to its ability to undergo temperature …

Cell sheet approach for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

K Matsuura, R Utoh, K Nagase, T Okano - Journal of Controlled Release, 2014 - Elsevier
After the biotech medicine era, regenerative medicine is expected to be an advanced
medicine that is capable of curing patients with difficult-to-treat diseases and physically …

A review of active and passive hybrid systems based on Dielectrophoresis for the manipulation of microparticles

A Al-Ali, W Waheed, E Abu-Nada, A Alazzam - Journal of Chromatography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Particle separation is essential in a broad range of systems and has several biological
applications. Microfluidics has emerged as a potentially transformational method for particle …

Polyelectrolyte brushes: theory, modelling, synthesis and applications

S Das, M Banik, G Chen, S Sinha, R Mukherjee - Soft Matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Polyelectrolyte (PE) brushes are a special class of polymer brushes (PBs) containing
charges. Polymer chains attain “brush”-like configuration when they are grafted or get …

Cell separation: Terminology and practical considerations

MJ Tomlinson, S Tomlinson… - Journal of tissue …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Cell separation is a powerful tool in biological research. Increasing usage, particularly within
the tissue engineering and regenerative medicine communities, means that researchers …

Thermoresponsive-polymer-based materials for temperature-modulated bioanalysis and bioseparations

K Nagase, T Okano - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Many bioactive compounds, pharmaceutical proteins, and therapeutic cells are used in
medical treatments. Methods for the effective purification of such compounds that retain their …

Advances in design of polymer brush functionalized inorganic nanomaterials and their applications in biomedical arena

S Dutta, N Shreyash, BK Satapathy… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Grafting of polymer brush (assembly of polymer chains tethered to the substrate by one end)
is emerging as one of the most viable approach to alter the surface of inorganic …