Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages 537-542Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am800260t
Keywords
poly(ether ether ketone); phosphorylcholine; surface modification; photopolymerization; wettability; protein adsorption
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In the present paper, we reported the fabrication of a highly hydrophilic nanometer-scale modified surface on a poly(ether ether ketone) (PEEK) substrate by photoinduced graft polymerization of 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine (MPC) in the absence of photoinitiators. Photoirradiation results in the generation of semibenzopinacol-containing radicals of benzophenone units in the PEEK molecular structure, which acts as a photoinitiator during graft polymerization. The poly(MPC)-grafted PEEK surface fabricated by a novel and simple polymerization system exhibited unique characteristics such as high wettability and high antiprotein adsorption, which makes it highly suitable for medical applications.
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