Biopolymer‐Based Coatings: Promising Strategies to Improve the Biocompatibility and Functionality of Materials Used in Biomedical Engineering

Abstract

Abstract It was a physicist, Wolfgang Pauli, who recognized a century ago that “God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.” And indeed, adjusting the surface properties of materials has kept engineers and chemists busy since—and it still does. In the context of biomedical engineering, the key challenge is ensuring the functionality of an artificial object, which is inserted into the human body—an environment that passively and actively rejects foreign materials. Here, recent advances in this area while focusing on those approaches that employ surface coating strategies with biopolymers are summarized.

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