Multicompartment Films Made of Alternate Polyelectrolyte Multilayers of Exponential and Linear Growth
- 21 July 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Langmuir
- Vol. 20 (17), 7298-7302
- https://doi.org/10.1021/la049106o
Abstract
The layer by layer deposition process of polyelectrolytes is used to construct films equipped with several compartments containing “free polyelectrolytes”. Each compartment corresponds to a stratum of an exponentially growing polyelectrolyte multilayer film, and two consecutive compartments are separated by a stratum composed of a linearly growing multilayer that acts as a barrier preventing polyelectrolyte diffusion from one compartment to another. We use hyaluronic acid/poly(l-lysine) as the system to build the compartments and the poly(styrene sulfonate)/poly(allylamine) system for the barrier. Using confocal microscopy, it is shown that poly(l-lysine) diffuses only within the compartment in which it was initially introduced during the film construction and is thus unable to cross the barriers. Using fluorescein isothiocyanate as a pH indicator, it is also shown that although poly(styrene sulfonate)/poly(allylamine) multilayers act as a barrier for polyelectrolytes, they do not prevent proton diffusion through the film. Such films open the route for multiple functionalization of biomaterial coatings.Keywords
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