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Nanoscale Probing of Biocompatibility of Materials

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Nanoscale Probes of the Solid/Liquid Interface

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After a brief introduction to the concept of biocompatibility of materials, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) are discussed with respect to their application to biomaterial surfaces through practical examples: Titanium, polyurethane and gold surface functionalized with self-assembly monolayers.

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  1. GAP-Biomedical, University of Geneva, 20, rue de l’Ecole-de-Médecine, CH-1211, Geneve 4, Switzerland

    P. A. R. Descouts

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 61801, Urbana, Illinois, USA

    Andrew A. Gewirth

  2. Institut für anorganische Chemie, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Hans Siegenthaler

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Descouts, P.A.R. (1995). Nanoscale Probing of Biocompatibility of Materials. In: Gewirth, A.A., Siegenthaler, H. (eds) Nanoscale Probes of the Solid/Liquid Interface. NATO ASI Series, vol 288. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8435-7_18

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