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NAMS 2002 Workshop - ICOM 2008

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distribution of SBMA units within the SPU membrane is well controlled, and they<br />

retain high mechanical strengths inherent from the base SPU membranes. In this<br />

case system, various parameters governing the formation of IPNs containing<br />

SBMA were studied. The amount of adsorbed proteins on the IPN membrane<br />

was determined by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Results show that<br />

the amount of adsorbed proteins on the IPN membranes depends on the<br />

incubation conditions, including solvent polarity, incubation time, SBMA monomer<br />

ratio, and incubation concentration. It appears that the IPN membranes prepared<br />

in a mixed solvent of higher polarity with long incubation time lead to very low<br />

protein adsorption. For the second case system, SPU membranes grafted with<br />

PSBMA via surface- activated ozone treatment and thermally induced graft<br />

copolymerization. Blood compatibility of the modified SPU membranes was<br />

evaluated by the biofouling property of the platelet adhesion observed by<br />

scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and the plasma protein adsorption<br />

determined by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). This study not<br />

only determines the grafting quality with PSBMA, but also provides a<br />

fundamental understanding of various grafting density governing the effects on<br />

the correlation of surface hydration and plasma proteins adoption.

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