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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES
卷 167, 期 -, 页码 492-498出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.04.048
关键词
Morphology; Roughness; Surface chemistry; Cell adhesion; Superhydrophobic
Improving the bioinertness of materials is of great importance for developing biomedical devices that contact human tissues. The main goal of this study was to establish correlations among surface morphology, roughness and chemistry with hydrophobicity and cell adhesion in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) nanocomposites loaded with titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles. Firstly, wettability results showed that the nanocomposite loaded with 30 wt.% of TiO2 exhibited a superhydrophobic behavior; however, the morphology and roughness analysis proved that there was no discernible difference between the surface structures of samples loaded with 20 and 30 wt.% of nanoparticles. Both cell culture and MTT assay experiments showed that, despite the similarity between the surface structures, the sample loaded with 30 wt.% nanoparticles exhibits the greatest reduction in the cell viability (80%) as compared with the pure PDMS film. According to the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results, the remarkable reduction in cell viability of the superhydrophobic sample could be majorly attributed to the role of surface chemistry. The obtained results emphasize the importance of adjusting the surface properties especially surface chemistry to gain the optimum cell adhesion behavior. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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