Multicompartment films made of alternate polyelectrolyte multilayers of exponential and linear growth |
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Authors: | Garza Juan Méndez Schaaf Pierre Muller Sylvaine Ball Vincent Stoltz Jean-François Voegel Jean-Claude Lavalle Philippe |
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Institution: | INSERM Unité 595, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Université Louis Pasteur, 11 rue Humann, F-67085 Strasbourg Cedex, France. |
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Abstract: | The layer by layer deposition process of polyelectrolytes is used to construct films equipped with several compartments containing "free polyelectrolytes". Each compartment corresponds to a stratum of an exponentially growing polyelectrolyte multilayer film, and two consecutive compartments are separated by a stratum composed of a linearly growing multilayer that acts as a barrier preventing polyelectrolyte diffusion from one compartment to another. We use hyaluronic acid/poly(L-lysine) as the system to build the compartments and the poly(styrene sulfonate)/poly(allylamine) system for the barrier. Using confocal microscopy, it is shown that poly(L-lysine) diffuses only within the compartment in which it was initially introduced during the film construction and is thus unable to cross the barriers. Using fluorescein isothiocyanate as a pH indicator, it is also shown that although poly(styrene sulfonate)/poly(allylamine) multilayers act as a barrier for polyelectrolytes, they do not prevent proton diffusion through the film. Such films open the route for multiple functionalization of biomaterial coatings. |
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