While nature has optimized its antifouling strategies over millions of years, synthetic
antifouling coatings have not yet reached technological maturity. For an antifouling coating …

Flexible electronics have attracted considerable attention in the past two decades due to
their distinctive features and numerous potential applications in electronic skins, human …

Recent progress in surface-initiated polymerization enables the deliberate polymer
modification of nanoscopic surfaces with high levels of precision. This has given rise to the …

The major strategies for designing surfaces that prevent fouling due to proteins, bacteria,
and marine organisms are reviewed. Biofouling is of great concern in numerous applications …

The adsorption of proteins is the initiating event in the processes occurring when blood
contacts a “foreign” surface in a medical device, leading inevitably to thrombus formation …

The association properties of poly (ethylene oxide)-block-poly (propyleneoxide)-block-poly
(ethylene oxide)(PEO PPO PEO) copolymers (commercially available as Poloxamers …

The protein resistance character of polyethylene oxide (PEO) chains terminally attached to a
hydrophobic solid substrate is theoretically studied. Steric repulsion, van der Waals …

We report data from infrared absorption (FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies that
correlate the molecular conformation of oligo (ethylene glycol)(OEG)-terminated self …

Amphiphiles, either synthetic or natural, are structurally simple molecules with the
unprecedented capacity to self-assemble into complex, hierarchical geometries in …

The explosive development of protein and peptide drugs has ushered in a great need for
effective delivery systems for such drugs. Two decades of studies of protein delivery from …