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Inside Front Cover: (Adv. Funct. Mater. 12/2008)
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.200890046
Subject(s) - front cover , cover (algebra) , materials science , microcontact printing , monolayer , nanotechnology , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering
Surprisingly, a simple, cost‐effective, chemical binding system, that is, an epoxide group, is found to successfully compete with the expensive biological binding mechanism of extracellular matrix protein gel (ECM). Here, osteoblasts are shown to exhibit preferential adhesion to the epoxide functional monolayer (black areas) over the microcontact printed ECM (blue areas). A proliferation study and MTT test did not reveal any adverse side effects of epoxide functional monolayers on the cells.