Silicone grafted bioactive peptides and their applications

As bioinert material, silicone has to be modified to display suitable biological properties. Peptides are attractive additives for such a purpose. Most of the time, several steps are needed for the synthesis of the peptide-modified silicone: first the silicone surface is modified to display a reactive function, then a bifunctional spacer can be grafted, and finally, the peptide is attached on the reactive group. However, some other alternatives...