Abstract
Charged N,N-disubstituted hydrazine phosphorus-containing dendrimers are deposited either as alternate all-dendrimers multilayers or alternating with linear polymers on 3-mercaptopropionic acid or 3-aminopropyldimethylethoxysilane coated surfaces via electrostatic layer-by-layer self-assembly. The behavior of the film formation is investigated by surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy and ellipsometry. Fetal cortical rat neurons were cultured on the dendrimer films in order to investigate the influence of the surface charge of the outermost layer on their adhesion and maturation. It was found that neurons attached preferentially and matured slightly faster on film surfaces terminated with positively charged dendrimers than on negatively charged surfaces.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1256-1264 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Thin Solid Films |
Volume | 516 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 30 Jan 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Seoul Research and Business Development Program (10816). Financial support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (MU 334/22-2, and SFB 625) is gratefully acknowledged. Prof. J.-P. Majoral and Dr. A. M. Caminade thank CNRS (France) for financial support. The authors thank Melanie Jungblut at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research for the preparation of fetal cortical neurons.
Keywords
- Cell adhesion
- Layer-by-layer self-assembly
- Phosphorus dendrimer
- Surface plasmon resonance