Issue 11, 2014

Chemically diverse polymer microarrays and high throughput surface characterisation: a method for discovery of materials for stem cell culture

Abstract

Materials discovery provides the opportunity to identify novel materials that are tailored to complex biological environments by using combinatorial mixing of monomers to form large libraries of polymers as micro arrays. The materials discovery approach is predicated on the use of the largest chemical diversity possible, yet previous studies into human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) response to polymer microarrays have been limited to 20 or so different monomer identities in each study. Here we show that it is possible to print and assess cell adhesion of 141 different monomers in a microarray format. This provides access to the largest chemical space to date, allowing us to meet the regenerative medicine challenge to provide scalable synthetic culture ware. This study identifies new materials suitable for hPSC expansion that could not have been predicted from previous knowledge of cell-material interactions.

Graphical abstract: Chemically diverse polymer microarrays and high throughput surface characterisation: a method for discovery of materials for stem cell culture

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Feb 2014
Accepted
22 Apr 2014
First published
12 May 2014
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Biomater. Sci., 2014,2, 1604-1611

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Chemically diverse polymer microarrays and high throughput surface characterisation: a method for discovery of materials for stem cell culture

A. D. Celiz, J. G. W. Smith, A. K. Patel, R. Langer, D. G. Anderson, D. A. Barrett, L. E. Young, M. C. Davies, C. Denning and M. R. Alexander, Biomater. Sci., 2014, 2, 1604 DOI: 10.1039/C4BM00054D

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