Abstract
We report that the nanometer-scale architecture of polymer chains plays a crucial role in its protein resistant property over surface chemistry. Protein-repellent (noncharged), few nanometer thick polymer layers were designed with homopolymer chains physisorbed on solids. We evaluated the antifouling property of the hydrophilic or hydrophobic adsorbed homopolymer chains against bovine serum albumin in water. Molecular dynamics simulations along with sum frequency generation spectroscopy data revealed the self-organized nanoarchitecture of the adsorbed chains composed of inner nematic-like ordered segments and outer brush-like segments across homopolymer systems with different interactions among a polymer, substrate, and interfacial water. We propose that this structure acts as a dual barrier against protein adsorption.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1153-1159 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | ACS Macro Letters |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 17 2019 |
Funding
We thank Ruipeng Li and Masafumi Fukuto for the SAXS and XR experiments and Dmytro Nykypanchuk for the photon counting spectrofluorometer experiments. T. Koga and M. K. Endoh acknowledge financial support from Kuraray. This research used resources of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials and the National Synchrotron Light Source II, which are U.S. DOE Office of Science Facilities, at Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract DE-SC0012704. The computational/simulations aspect of this work was performed at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility. This research also used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.
Funders | Funder number |
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National Synchrotron Light Source II | |
U.S. Department of Energy | |
Office of Science | DE-AC05-00OR22725 |
Brookhaven National Laboratory | DE-SC0012704 |
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | 17J00917 |