Thin Thermoresponsive Polymer Films for Cell Culture : Elucidating an Unexpected Thermal Phase Behavior by Atomic Force Microscopy

Application of poly-N-isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAM) and its more hydrophobic copolymers with N-tert-butylacrylamide (NtBA) as supports for cell sheets has been validated in numerous studies. The binary systems of these polymers with water are characterized by a lower critical solution temperature (LC...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1999. - 37(2021), 38 vom: 28. Sept., Seite 11386-11396
1. Verfasser: Frolova, Anastasia (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Ksendzov, Evgenii, Kostjuk, Sergei, Efremov, Yuri, Solovieva, Anna, Rochev, Yuri, Timashev, Peter, Kotova, Svetlana
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article Polymers
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520 |a Application of poly-N-isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAM) and its more hydrophobic copolymers with N-tert-butylacrylamide (NtBA) as supports for cell sheets has been validated in numerous studies. The binary systems of these polymers with water are characterized by a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) in a physiologically favorable region. Upon lowering the temperature below the LCST, PNIPAM chains undergo a globule-to-coil transition, causing the film dissolution and cell sheet detachment. The character of the PNIPAM-water miscibility behavior is rather complex and not completely understood. Here, we applied atomic force microscopy to track the phase transition in thin films of linear thermoresponsive (co)polymers (PNIPAM and PNIPAM-co-NtBA) prepared by spin-coating. We studied the films' Young's modulus, roughness, and thickness in air and in distilled water in a full thermal cycle. In dry films, in the absence of water, all the measured parameters remained invariant. The swollen films in water above the LCST were softer by 2-3 orders of magnitude and about 10 times rougher than the corresponding dry films. Upon lowering the temperature to the LCST, the films passed through the phase transition observed as a drastic drop of Young's modulus (about an order of magnitude) and decrease in roughness in both polymers in a narrow temperature range. However, the films did not lose their integrity and demonstrated almost fully reversible changes in the mechanical properties and roughness. The thermal dependence of the films' thickness confirmed that they dissolved only partially and required an external force to induce the complete destruction. The reversible thermal behavior which is generally not expected from non-cross-linked polymers is a key finding, especially with respect to their practical application in cell culture. Both the thermodynamic and kinetic factors, as well as the confinement effect, may be responsible for this peculiar film robustness, which requires overcooling and the aid of an external force to destroy the film 
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