PMID- 27268965 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20180711 LR - 20180711 IS - 1944-8252 (Electronic) IS - 1944-8244 (Linking) VI - 8 IP - 26 DP - 2016 Jul 6 TI - Predictive Model for the Design of Zwitterionic Polymer Brushes: A Statistical Design of Experiments Approach. PG - 16595-603 LID - 10.1021/acsami.6b04370 [doi] AB - The performance of polymer interfaces in biology is governed by a wide spectrum of interfacial properties. With the ultimate goal of identifying design parameters for stem cell culture coatings, we developed a statistical model that describes the dependence of brush properties on surface-initiated polymerization (SIP) parameters. Employing a design of experiments (DOE) approach, we identified operating boundaries within which four gel architecture regimes can be realized, including a new regime of associated brushes in thin films. Our statistical model can accurately predict the brush thickness and the degree of intermolecular association of poly[2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyl dimethyl-(3-sulfopropyl) ammonium hydroxide] (PMEDSAH), a previously reported synthetic substrate for feeder-free and xeno-free culture of human embryonic stem cells. DOE-based multifunctional predictions offer a powerful quantitative framework for designing polymer interfaces. For example, model predictions can be used to decrease the critical thickness at which the wettability transition occurs by simply increasing the catalyst quantity from 1 to 3 mol %. FAU - Kumar, Ramya AU - Kumar R AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, double daggerDepartment of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, section signDepartment of Material Science & Engineering, perpendicularDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, and parallelBiointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States. FAU - Lahann, Joerg AU - Lahann J AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, double daggerDepartment of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, section signDepartment of Material Science & Engineering, perpendicularDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, and parallelBiointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20160621 PL - United States TA - ACS Appl Mater Interfaces JT - ACS applied materials & interfaces JID - 101504991 OTO - NOTNLM OT - PMEDSAH OT - response surface methodology OT - stem cell culture OT - surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization OT - zwitterionic self-association EDAT- 2016/06/09 06:00 MHDA- 2016/06/09 06:01 CRDT- 2016/06/09 06:00 PHST- 2016/06/09 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/06/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/06/09 06:01 [medline] AID - 10.1021/acsami.6b04370 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2016 Jul 6;8(26):16595-603. doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b04370. Epub 2016 Jun 21.