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ACS MACRO LETTERS
Volume 4, Issue 5, Pages 505-510Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/mz500818c
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- Office of Naval Research [N00014-10-1-0527, N00014-14-1-0082]
- Welch Foundation through the W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry [A-0001]
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An antibiofouling polymer coating, combined with both zwitterionic and amphiphilic features, is engineered by a two-step modification of a commodity polymer. The surface properties of the resultant polymer coating can be easily tuned by varying the extent of cross-linking in the network. Higher antibiofouling efficiency was observed for these surfaces vs. an elastomeric polydimethylsiloxane standard (Sylgard 184) against the adsorption of biomacromolecules and a marine fouling organism (Ulva zoospores) has been demonstrated. This design establishes a platform for the achievement of functionalized amphiphilic zwitterionic copolymers from relatively inexpensive starting materials via simple chemical manipulations.
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