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Abstract

Inspired by nature, significant research efforts have been made to discover the diverse range of biomaterials for various biomedical applications such as drug development, disease diagnosis, biomedical testing, therapy, etc. Polymers as bioinspired materials with extreme wettable properties, such as superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic surfaces, have received considerable interest in the past due to their multiple applications in anti-fogging, anti-icing, self-cleaning, oil–water separation, biosensing, and effective transportation of water. Apart from the numerous technological applications for extreme wetting and self-cleaning products, recently, super-wettable surfaces based on polymeric materials have also emerged as excellent candidates in studying biological processes. In this review, we systematically illustrate the designing and processing of artificial, super-wettable surfaces by using different polymeric materials for a variety of biomedical applications including tissue engineering, drug/gene delivery, molecular recognition, and diagnosis. Special attention has been paid to applications concerning the identification, control, and analysis of exceedingly small molecular amounts and applications permitting high cell and biomaterial cell screening. Current outlook and future prospects are also provided.

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Title
Recent Developments in Artificial Super-Wettable Surfaces Based on Bioinspired Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Applications
Author
Ansar Abbas 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zhang, Chen 1 ; Asad, Muhammad 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ahsan Waqas 3 ; Khatoon, Asma 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Hussain, Sameer 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sajjad Husain Mir 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 School of Chemistry, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; [email protected] (A.A.); [email protected] (C.Z.) 
 Green Catalysis Center, College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China; [email protected] 
 Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry (Ministry of Education), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China; [email protected] 
 College of Business Administration, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 34212, Saudi Arabia; [email protected] 
 School of Chemistry and Advanced Materials & BioEngineering Research (AMBER) Center, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, D02 PN40 Dublin, Ireland 
First page
238
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20734360
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2621376707
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.