Phospholipid arrays on porous polymer coatings generated by micro-contact spotting

• Sylwia Sekula-Neuner,
• Monica de Freitas,
• Lea-Marie Tröster,
• Tobias Jochum,
• Pavel A. Levkin,
• Michael Hirtz and
• Harald Fuchs

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 715–722, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.75

• variety of bio-applications. Keywords: microcontact cantilever spotting; phospholipids; polymeric porous support; polymethacrylate; Introduction Starting with the creation of high density peptide microarrays in the 1990s [1] the development of arrays with DNA molecules and antibodies has produced a

• ethylene dimethacrylate in the presence of porogens (1-decanol and cyclohexanol) [29]. This procedure leads to the formation of a thin film of a highly cross-linked and porous (due to the presence of porogens) hydrophilic polymethacrylate layer. The porous structure is a permeable network of interconnected

Porous polymer coatings as substrates for the formation of high-fidelity micropatterns by quill-like pens

• Michael Hirtz,
• Marcus Lyon,
• Wenqian Feng,
• Andrea E. Holmes,
• Harald Fuchs and
• Pavel A. Levkin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 377–384, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.44

• spotted by this method onto flat porous polymer substrates. Keywords: microarrays; microscale printing; microspotting; polymeric porous support; polymethacrylate; quill-like pens; Introduction Microarrays are of immense importance in many fields of biological research (e.g., genomics, proteomics, and