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Hemocompatibility is the most significant criterion for blood‐contacting materials in successful in vivo applications. Prior to the clinical tests, in vitro analyses must be performed on the biomaterial surfaces in accordance with the ISO 10993‐4 standards. Designing a bio‐functional material requires engineering the surface structure and chemistry, which significantly influence the blood cell activity according to earlier studies. In this study, we elucidate the role of surface terminations and polymorphs of SiC single crystals in the initial stage of the contact coagulation. We present a detailed analysis of phase, roughness, surface potential, wettability, consequently, reveal their effect on cytotoxicity and hemocompatibility by employing live/dead stainings, live cell imaging, ELISA and Micro BCA protein assay. Our results showed that the surface potential and the wettability strongly depend on the crystallographic polymorph as well as the surface termination. We show, for the first time, the key role of SiC surface termination on platelet activation. This dependency is in good agreement with the results of our in vitro analysis and points out the prominence of cellular anisotropy. We anticipate that our experimental findings bridge the surface properties to the cellular activities, and therefore, pave the way for tailoring advanced hemocompatible surfaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The described method enables facile gram-scale preparation of CuFeS2 nanocrystals exhibiting interesting thermoelectric properties from simple and readily available precursors. Exchange of primary organic ligands for inorganic ones using either (NH4)2S or triethyloxonium tetrafuoroborate (Meerwein's salt) resulted in nanocrystals from which n-type bulk thermoelectric materials were obtained through sintering under pressure. The measured physical properties of the fabricated bulk thermoelectric materials depend on the type of inorganic ligands used for the exchange. In particular, materials that were surface-modified with Meerwein's salt have a higher Seebeck coefficient (|S| = 238 μV K-1) as compared to those modified with (NH4)2S, whereas the latter exhibit higher electrical conductivity (8500 S m-1) and lower thermal conductivity (0.5 W m-1 K-1), both of which are favorable for thermoelectric applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]