Elastic modulus of nanostructured polymer surfaces

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-15-2012

Abstract

Living cell cultures exhibit improved adhesion on polymer surfaces engineered with nano-scale structures as compared to their flat counterparts. During fabrication their polymer-chain structure can be altered, thus affecting their mechanical properties. Here, we demonstrate using atomic-force-microscope nanoindentation that the modulus of nanostructured PDMS is doubled, while that of nanostructured ORMOCER increases by an order of magnitude, when compared to their flat counterparts. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Title

Materials Letters

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