Modification of poly(lactic acid) films: Enhanced wettability from surface-confined photografting and increased degradation rate due to an artifact of the photografting process

By A. Janorkar, A. Metters, D. Hirt. 2004

167 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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In Biomaterials

1. G. Gorrasi
2. E. Baran
3. H. Erbil
4. R. Pantani

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2. H. Erbil

In Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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2. H. Erbil

Citations in the corpus

• Review: Photopolymerizable and Degradable Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications (2007, unknown): “with PAA and poly(acrylamide) using photopolymerization in an attempt to generate a bioactive surface with rapid degradation.(99) Various copolymers containing blocks of poly(a-hydroxy esters) and other synthetic polymers have been prepared.”
• Surface Modification of 3D Printed PLA Objects by Fused Deposition Modeling: A Review (2019, background): “As a result, it has been observed that the hydrophilicity or wettability of the grafted surfaces has improved considerably [86].”
• Hydrolysis and Biodegradation of Poly(lactic acid) (2017, background): “• generation of hydrophilic surfaces by copolymerization, grafting reactions, and cross-linking [84-90]”