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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 18.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2010 Feb 9;31(12):3148–3155. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.01.025

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Creation of the surface charge gradient is accomplished by translating the edge mask at a constant rate over a 1 cm region of the uniformly modified MTS silica slide. On the UV exposed region the surface thiol group is oxidized into a negatively charged sulfonate group.