Biomaterials characterization

New experimental results on specific polymer material problems are presented in the last nine chapters. Several cases involve the study of polymers from commercial sources. The topics include (1) surface chemistry as induced by (a) outdoor weathering, (b) chemical reactions, and (c) plasma exposure (2) chemical bond formation at the polymer -metal interface and (3)biomaterials characterization and relationship to blood compatibility. 

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Surface analysis techniques are categorized in Table I. Figure 1, often called a Propst diagram, illustrates the probes and emitted species that can be measured in many of the new techniques for surface analysis. More than 40 of the possible combinations have been explored many others have not yet been tried. Figure 2 presents an approximate comparison of the various techniques with respect to their depth of analysis. Only the techniques that have shown success or show promise for use in biomaterials characterization will be considered in more detail in this review. 

Multilayered structures play an important role in the production of, e.g., biomaterials, catalysts, corrosion protectors, detectors/diodes, gas and humidity sensors, integral circuits, optical parts, solar cells, and wear protection materials. One of the most sophisticated developments is a head-up-display (HUD) for cars, consisting of a polycarbonate substrate and a series of the layers Cr (25 nm), A1 (150 nm), SiO, (55 nm), TiO, (31 nm), and SiO, (8 nm). Such systems should be characterized by non-destructive analytical methods. 

SALI is a reladvely new surface technique that delivers a quantitative and sensitive measure of the chemical composition of solid surfaces. Its major advantage, compared to its parent technique SIMS, is that quantitative elemental and molecular informadon can be obtained. SPI offers exciting possibilities for the analytical characterization of the surfaces of polymers and biomaterials in which chemical differ-endation could be based solely on the characteristic SALE spectra. 

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Section 7.3 will describe tools we developed to synthesize and characterize soft dendritic nanostructured TPE biomaterials via living carbocationic polymerization, and decorate their surfaces with tissue-friendly groups. 

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Just like in coiled-coils, p-sheet secondary structure (Fig. 2) is ubiquitous in natural examples and in proteins and biomaterials. Alzheimer s disease is characterized by fibrillar amyloid plaques in the cerebral parenchyma. The insoluble amyloid fibrils are predominantly formed upon conformational switching of the 42 amino acid... 

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The enormous temperatures attained on resistively heated sample holders can also be used to intentionally enforce the decomposition of non-volatile samples, thereby yielding characteristic pyrolysis products. Pyrolysis mass spectrometry (Py-MS) can be applied to synthetic polymers, [54] fossil biomaterial, [55] food [56] and soil [57] analysis and even to characterize whole bacteria. [58]... 

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