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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 03, 1995
Frances S Ligler, Potomac, MD (US);
Suresh Bhatia, Burke, VA (US);
Lisa C Shriver-Lake, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Jacque Georger, Springfield, VA (US);
Jeff Calvert, Burke, VA (US);
Charles Dulcey, Washington, DC (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
GEO-Centers, Inc., Newton Centre, MA (US);
Abstract
Irradiating, with ultraviolet light, surfaces which contain thiol groups, epoxy groups, or vicinal diol groups, results in surfaces which exhibit a reduced adsorption of biomolecules. In the case of surfaces having thiol groups such irradiation also results in a reduced capacity for the bonding of heterobifunctional crosslinking reagents. Such irradiation may be carried out in a patternwise fashion to obtain patterned surfaces.