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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Ulster
Inhibition of lens epithelial cell growth via immobilisation of hyaluronic acid on atmospheric pressure plasma modified polystyrene
This paper builds on a substantial body of previously published internationally leading work from the Ulster group which addresses the development of a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma operating in air at atmospheric pressure to induce chemical grafting onto biopolymer surfaces. The work presented herein reports for the first time the conditions required to graft biologically active macromolecules via the technique. The paper led to an invited keynote presentation at the 9th International Symposium on Polymer Surface Modification, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania USA, 16th-18th June 2013.