Tuesday, 1 November 2005
291r
Design of Nanoscale Protein Patterning Using Self-Assembled Diblock Copolymers
Nitin Kumar and Jong-in Hahm. Chemical Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, Fenske Building, University Park, PA 16802
Novel methods for immobilizing proteins on surfaces have the potential to impact basic biological research as well as various biochip applications. We demonstrate a unique method to pattern proteins with a nanometer periodicity on silicon oxide substrates using microphase-separated diblock copolymer thin films. The self-organizing nature of the diblock copolymer was exploited to produce periodically alternating, nanometer-spaced polymeric domains exposing the two chemical compositions of the diblock to surface. We demonstrate that the model proteins selectively self-organize themselves on the microdomain regions of specific polymer components due to their preferential interactions with one of the two polymer segments.
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