Title
Smart design for a flexible, functionalized and electroresponsive hybrid platform based on poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) derivatives to improve cell viability
Date Issued
14 October 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Molina B.G.
Bendrea A.D.
Lanzalaco S.
Franco L.
Cianga L.
Puiggali J.
Turon P.
Armelin E.
Cianga I.
Aleman C.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Publisher(s)
Royal Society of Chemistry
Abstract
Development of smart functionalized materials for tissue engineering has attracted significant attention in recent years. In this work we have functionalized a free-standing film of isotactic polypropylene (i-PP), a synthetic polymer that is typically used for biomedical applications (e.g.fabrication of implants), for engineering a 3D all-polymer flexible interface that enhances cell proliferation by a factor ofca.three. A hierarchical construction process consisting of three steps was engineered as follows: (1) functionalization of i-PP by applying a plasma treatment, resulting in i-PPf; (2) i-PPfsurface coating with a layer of polyhydroxymethy-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene nanoparticles (PHMeEDOT NPs) byin situchemical oxidative polymerization of HMeEDOT; and (3) deposition on the previously activated and PHMeEDOT NPs coated i-PP film (i-PPf/NP) of a graft conjugated copolymer, having a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) backbone, and randomly distributed short poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) side chains (PEDOT-g-PCL), as a coating layer of ∼9 μm in thickness. The properties of the resulting bioplatform, which can be defined as a robust macroscopic composite coated with a “molecular composite”, were investigated in detail, and both adhesion and proliferation of two human cell lines have been evaluated, as well. The results demonstrate that the incorporation of the PEDOT-g-PCL layer significantly improves cell attachment and cell growth not only when compared to i-PP but also with respect to the same platform coated with only PEDOT, constructed in a similar manner, as a control.
Start page
8864
End page
8877
Volume
8
Issue
38
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia de los polímeros Electroquímica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85092239367
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Materials Chemistry B
ISSN of the container
2050750X
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by Spanish and Romanian funding agencies. In Spain the authors acknowledge MINECO/FEDER (RTI2018-098951-B-I00 and RTI2018-101827-B-I00) and the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (2017SGR359, 2017SGR373 and 2017SGR128). C. A. is grateful to the ICREA Academia program for excellence in research for support of this research. In Romania this work was supported by a grant of the Ministry of Research and Innovation, CNCS-UEFISCDI (PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0050, within PNCDI III), which the Romanian authors greatly acknowledge. All authors are indebted to B. Braun Surgical S.A. for support and helpful discussion.
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