Journal article
PEDOT doped with algal, mammalian and synthetic dopants: Polymer properties, protein and cell interactions, and influence of electrical stimulation on neuronal cell differentiation
PJ Molino, L Garcia, EM Stewart, M Lamaze, B Zhang, AR Harris, P Winberg, GG Wallace
Biomaterials Science | ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1039/c7bm01156c
Abstract
Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) films were electrochemically polymerised with several synthetic (dodecylbenzosulfonic acid (DBSA)) and biological (dextran sulphate (DS), chondroitin sulphate (CS), alginic acid (ALG) and ulvan (ULV)) dopant anions, and their physical, mechanical and electrochemical properties characterised. PEDOT films incorporating the biological dopants ALG and ULV produced films of the greatest surface roughness (46 ± 5.1 and 31 ± 1.9 nm, respectively), and demonstrated significantly lower shear modulus values relative to all other PEDOT films (2.1 ± 0.1 and 1.2 ± 0.2 MPa, respectively). Quartz crystal microgravimetry was used to study the adsorption of the import..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) through the Australian Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (CE140100012). GGW is also grateful to the ARC for support under the Australian Laureate Fellowship scheme (FL110100196). We also thank the Australian National Fabrication Facility for access to equipment.