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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 22.
Published in final edited form as: Chembiochem. 2012 Jul 17;13(12):1717–1724. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201200226

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Generating defined culture substrates using alkanethiolate SAM arrays. SAMs can be designed to present covalently immobilized biomolecules to cells while minimizing the effects of nonspecific protein adsorption by using oligo(ethylene glycol) moieties that limit protein-surface interaction.