April 15, 2016
10:00am
Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Building
231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Surface coatings are important in various application fields as they allow to provide “bulk materials” with specific surface properties. In biomedical devices for in vitro diagnosis and in the design of implantable biomaterials, surface coatings are key to control the interactions between devices/biomolecules and implants/soft or hard tissues. I will present our work on the engineering of thin surface coatings and free-standing membranes made by the layer-by-layer assembly of polypeptides and polysaccharides. [full abstract]