title: Tailored electroactive nanorods for biospecific cell adhesion and differentiation.
abstract: We report a strategy for the fabrication of tailored electroactive nanorod substrates for biospecific studies of cell adhesion and stem cell differentiation; to control the interfacial properties of the nanorods we formed self-assembled monolayers of an electroactive hydroquinone group that is able to chemoselectively immobilize oxyamine tethered ligands.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and the Carolina Center for Genome Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, USA.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Muhammad N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Yousaf
mesh_terms: D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004583:Electrons; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D015394:Molecular Structure; D043942:Nanotubes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology