Protein adsorption behavior in nanoscale phase-separated polymer coatings prepared using poly(2-methacrylolyoxyethyl phosphorylcholine)-containing amphiphilic block copolymers

In protein adsorption on material surfaces, the surface structure at the nanometer-scale is one of the most important factors; however, the relationship between the size of the hydrophobic protein-adsorptive domain and that of the protein in protein adsorption remains unclear. In this study, we prepared phase-separated surfaces with different hydrophobic domain sizes (10 or 20 nm) using amphiphilic ABA-type block copolymers composed of...