Comparison of the surface properties and cytocompatibility between plasma activated and homogeneously polydopamine-coated PCL nanofibers as a result of a pre-plasma activation step Universiteit Gent
Plasma activation and polydopamine (PDA) coating deposition on nanofibrous tissue engineering (TE) scaffolds have emerged as two easy and inexpensive methods to improve their cell-material interactions. This work is the first one to compare the cytocompatibility of both surface modification techniques on polycaprolactone nanofibers (NFs). First, the argon plasma treatment (PT) and PDA coating deposition were optimized based on water contact ...