Mechanical writing of electrical polarization in poly (L-lactic) acid.

Acta Biomaterialia
Nathalie BarrocaPaula M Vilarinho

Abstract

Stimuli responsive materials are found in a broad range of applications, from energy harvesters to biomolecular sensors. Here, we report the production of poly (L-lactic acid) (PLLA) thin films that exhibit a mechanical stress responsive behaviour. By simply applying a mechanical stress through an AFM tip, a local electrical polarization was generated and measured by Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy. We showed that the magnitude of the stress generated electrical polarization can be manipulated by varying the thickness or crystallization state of the PLLA thin films. Besides exhibiting a mechanical stress-response behaviour with potential for energy harvesting and sensor applications, we show by AFM that these platforms react to mechanical forces with physiological relevance: interaction forces as low as a cell sheet migrating over a substrate or larger ones as the fluid induced stresses in bone tissue. In living tissues, as most mechanical stimuli are transduced as strain gradients for the anatomical structures, these mechanically responsive substrates can be used as ex vivo platforms to study the protein and cells response over a large range of electrical stimuli amplitude. As a proof of concept, selective adsorption of a human ...Continue Reading

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