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Discovery of a Novel Polymer for Xeno-Free, Long-Term Culture of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion (2020)
Journal Article
Nasir, A., Thorpe, J., Burroughs, L., Meurs, J., Pijuan‐Galito, S., Irvine, D. J., …Denning, C. (2020). Discovery of a Novel Polymer for Xeno-Free, Long-Term Culture of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 10(6), Article 2001448. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202001448

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can be expanded and differentiated in vitro into almost any adult tissue cell type, and thus have great potential as a source for cell therapies with biomedical application. In this study, a fully-defined polymer... Read More about Discovery of a Novel Polymer for Xeno-Free, Long-Term Culture of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion.

Polymer microarrays rapidly identify competitive adsorbents of virus-like particles (2020)
Journal Article
Blok, A. J., Gurnani, P., Xenopoulos, A., Burroughs, L., Duncan, J., Urbanowicz, R. A., …Alexander, M. R. (2020). Polymer microarrays rapidly identify competitive adsorbents of virus-like particles. Biointerphases, 15(6), Article 061005. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0000586

The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 highlights the global need for platform technologies to enable the rapid development of diagnostics, vaccines, treatments, and personal protective equipment (PPE). However, many current technologies require the detailed me... Read More about Polymer microarrays rapidly identify competitive adsorbents of virus-like particles.

All Surfaces Are Not Equal in Contact Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (2020)
Journal Article
Xue, X., Ball, J. K., Alexander, C., & Alexander, M. R. (2020). All Surfaces Are Not Equal in Contact Transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Matter, 3(5), 1433-1441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.10.006

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. The world faces a severe and acute public health emergency due to the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Healthcare workers are... Read More about All Surfaces Are Not Equal in Contact Transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

Developing immune-regulatory materials using immobilized monosaccharides with immune-instructive properties (2020)
Journal Article
Alobaid, M. A., Richards, S., Alexander, M. R., Gibson, M. I., & Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2020). Developing immune-regulatory materials using immobilized monosaccharides with immune-instructive properties. Materials Today Bio, 8, Article 100080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtbio.2020.100080

© 2020 The Authors New strategies for immune modulation have shown real promise in regenerative medicine as well as the fight against autoimmune diseases, allergies, and cancer. Dendritic cells (DCs) are gatekeepers of the immune system and their abi... Read More about Developing immune-regulatory materials using immobilized monosaccharides with immune-instructive properties.

Discovery of hemocompatible bacterial biofilm-resistant copolymers (2020)
Journal Article
Singh, T., Hook, A. L., Luckett, J., Maitz, M. F., Sperling, C., Werner, C., …Alexander, M. R. (2020). Discovery of hemocompatible bacterial biofilm-resistant copolymers. Biomaterials, 260, Article 120312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2020.120312

© 2020 The Authors Blood-contacting medical devices play an important role within healthcare and are required to be biocompatible, hemocompatible and resistant to microbial colonization. Here we describe a high throughput screen for copolymers with t... Read More about Discovery of hemocompatible bacterial biofilm-resistant copolymers.

Inkjet based 3D Printing of bespoke medical devices that resist bacterial biofilm formation (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
He, Y., Begines, B., Luckett, J., Dubern, J., Hook, A., Prina, E., …Wildman, R. D. Inkjet based 3D Printing of bespoke medical devices that resist bacterial biofilm formation

We demonstrate the formulation of advanced functional 3D printing inks that prevent the formation of bacterial biofilms in vivo. Starting from polymer libraries, we show that a biofilm resistant object can be 3D printed with the potential for shape a... Read More about Inkjet based 3D Printing of bespoke medical devices that resist bacterial biofilm formation.

Immune Modulation by Design: Using Topography to Control Human Monocyte Attachment and Macrophage Differentiation (2020)
Journal Article
Vassey, M. J., Figueredo, G. P., Scurr, D. J., Vasilevich, A. S., Vermeulen, S., Carlier, A., …Alexander, M. R. (2020). Immune Modulation by Design: Using Topography to Control Human Monocyte Attachment and Macrophage Differentiation. Advanced Science, 7(11), Article 1903392. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201903392

© 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Macrophages play a central role in orchestrating immune responses to foreign materials, which are often responsible for the failure of implanted medical devices. Material t... Read More about Immune Modulation by Design: Using Topography to Control Human Monocyte Attachment and Macrophage Differentiation.

ToF-SIMS and Machine Learning for Single-Pixel Molecular Discrimination of an Acrylate Polymer Microarray (2020)
Journal Article
Gardner, W., Hook, A. L., Alexander, M. R., Ballabio, D., Cutts, S. M., Muir, B. W., & Pigram, P. J. (2020). ToF-SIMS and Machine Learning for Single-Pixel Molecular Discrimination of an Acrylate Polymer Microarray. Analytical Chemistry, 92(9), 6587-6597. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00349

© 2020 American Chemical Society. Combinatorial approaches to materials discovery offer promising potential for the rapid development of novel polymer systems. Polymer microarrays enable the high-throughput comparison of material physical and chemica... Read More about ToF-SIMS and Machine Learning for Single-Pixel Molecular Discrimination of an Acrylate Polymer Microarray.