Interfacial Engineering of Hierarchically Porous NiTi/Hydrogels Nanocomposites with Exceptional Antibiofouling Surfaces.

Authors :: Zang D
Yi H
Gu Z
Chen L
Han D
Guo X
Wang S
Liu M
Jiang L
Source :: Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) [Adv Mater] 2017 Jan; Vol. 29 (2). Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Nov 10.
Publication Year :: 2017
Abstract: Seamlessly bridging the hard and the soft, a strategy to fabricate hierarchically porous NiTi/hydrogels nanocomposites is reported. The nanocomposite surface can hold high-content water while keeping its hierarchical nanoscale topography, thus showing exceptional antibiofouling performance. This strategy will lead to antibiofouling alloy (e.g., NiTi)/hydrogel nanocomposites for improved stents and other blood-contacting implants and medical devices.<br /> (© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.)

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