Sulfuric acid (98% for analysis), aqueous hydrogen peroxide (30% for synthesis), benzene (ACS, ISO, Reag. Ph. Eur. for analysis), dichloromethane (DCM; ACS, ISO, Reag. Ph. Eur. for analysis), ethanol (>96% not denaturized), and chloroform (ACS, ISO, Reag. Ph. Eur. for analysis) were purchased from VWR international
® (Darmstadt, Germany) and 3-iodopropyltrimethoxysilane, 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (97%) and (
N-methylaminopropyl)trimethoxysilane from abcr
® (Karlsruhe, Germany). Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO4600, nominal M
W = 4600 g/mol),
N,
N,
N′,
N′-tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) (ReagentPlus
®, 99%, freshly distilled), 3-sulfopropylmethacrylate potassium salt (SPM) (98%),
triethylamine (≥99%) and 2M lithium diisopropylamine (LDA) in tetrahydrofurane (THF),
N-propyl gallate and
α-bromoisobutyryl bromide (98%) were purchased from Sigma Aldrich
® (Taufkirchen, Germany).
HL5c medium was obtained from Formedium (Hunsanton, UK),
24 well cell culture plates from Sarstedt (Nümbrecht, Germany), glutaraldehyde (0.5%) from Plano (Wetzlar, Germany), and the silicon wafer with diameter of 150 mm and <100> orientation from SI-MAT (Kaufering, Germany). All chemicals were used as received.
Ultrapure water with a resistivity of 18.2 MΩ∙cm was obtained fresh from an ELGA Pure Lab ultra machine (Celle, Germany). Dry solvents were prepared according to previously published procedures [17 ].
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