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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Healthc Mater. 2012 Sep 4;2(2):266–270. doi: 10.1002/adhm.201200148

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) thin films are formed on islets by layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly. Islets are incubated in poly-L-lysine grafted with poly(ethylene glycol) side chains (PLL-g-PEG), washed with islet wash buffer three times, incubated in alginate, and washed once again with islet wash buffer three times to form each bilayer of the multilayer film.