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SUBMITTER: McCaig HC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5297368 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McCaig Heather C HC Myers Ed E Lewis Nathan S NS Roukes Michael L ML
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Surface-initiated polymerization has been used to grow thick, uniform poly(methyl methacrylate) films on nanocantilever sensors. Cantilevers with these coatings yielded significantly greater sensitivity relative to bare devices as well as relative to devices that had been coated with drop-cast polymer films. The devices with surface-initiated polymer films also demonstrated high selectivity toward polar analytes. Surface-initiated polymerization can therefore provide a straightforward, reproduci ...[more]