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Reduction of protein adsorption by coating surfaces with polyethylene glycol (PEG) is well documented. The present work has four goals related to these previous studies: first, to develop chemistry providing densely packed, covalently bound PEG on polystyrene (PS); second, to determine the ability of these modified surfaces to reject fibrinogen; third, to compare the protein‐rejecting ability of branched and linear PEGs; and fourth, to examine the utility of an ELISA‐type procedure for measuring protein adsorption. It was found that PEG‐epoxide could be readily coupled to amine groups of poly(ethy1ene imine) (PEI), which had been preadsorbed onto an oxidized PS surface. The PEG groups on branched PEGs appear to act as an excluded volume to repel proteins, similar to arguments previously raised for linear PEGs. The results of protein adsorption studies showed that fibrinogen adsorption is significantly …