Jonas D. Mendelsohn

TL;DR: High-efficiency anti-reflection coatings are created from phase-separated polyelectrolyte multilayer films that undergo a reversible pH-induced swelling transition, which has potential for pH-responsive biomaterial and membrane applications.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple process was developed to create large area, highly uniform microporous thin films, which were assembled onto silicon substrates by the sequential adsorption of poly(acrylic acid) and poly(allylamine) from aqueous solution.

TL;DR: By manipulating the multilayer pH or ionic strength assembly conditions or both, which in turn dictate the molecular architecture of the thin films, one may powerfully direct a single multilayers combination to be either cell adhesive or cell resistant.

TL;DR: In situ swelling experiments indicate that the H-bonded multilayers are hydrogellike coatings capable of a high level of swelling in buffered solution and the long-term stability of the cell-resistant multilayer coatings was found to be exceptionally good even under conditions where a high degree of swelling takes place.

TL;DR: One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of coating a surface with polyelectrolyte multilayer film, which film swells to less than or equal to about 150% of its original thickness when exposed to an aqueous medium as mentioned in this paper.