Stability of Polyethylene Glycol and Zwitterionic Surface Modifications in PDMS Microfluidic Flow Chambers
Stability of Polyethylene Glycol and Zwitterionic Surface Modifications in PDMS Microfluidic Flow Chambers
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03095
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发表时间:
2018-01-09
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3.9
通讯作者:
Potkay, Joseph A.
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作者:
Plegue, Thomas J.;Kovach, Kyle M.;Potkay, Joseph A.
Blood-material interactions are crucial to the lifetime, safety, and overall success of blood contacting devices. Hydrophilic polymer coatings have been employed to improve device lifetime by shielding blood contacting materials from the natural foreign body response, primarily the intrinsic pathway of the coagulation cascade. These coatings have the ability to repel proteins, cells, bacteria, and other micro-organisms. Coatings are desired to have long-term stability, so that the nonthrombogenic and nonfouling effects gained are long lasting. Unfortunately, there exist limited studies which investigate their stability under dynamic flow conditions as encountered in a physiological setting. In addition, direct comparisons between multiple coatings are lacking in the literature. In this study, we investigate the stability of polyethylene glycol (PEG), zwitterionic sulfobetaine silane (SBSi), and zwitterionic polyethylene glycol sulfobetaine silane (PEG-SBSi) grafted by a room temperature, sequential flow chemistry process on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) over time under ambient, static fluid (no flow), and physiologically relevant flow conditions and compare the results to uncoated PDMS controls. PEG, SBSi, and PEG-SBSi coatings maintained contact angles below 20 degrees for up to 35 days under ambient conditions. SBSi and PEG-SBSi showed increased stability and hydrophilicity after 7 days under static conditions. They also retained contact angles