Amphiphilic Copolymers for Versatile, Facile, and In Situ Tunable Surface Biofunctionalization.

Precision surface engineering is key to advanced biomaterials. A new platform of PEGylated styrene-maleic acid copolymers for adsorptive surface biofunctionalization is reported. Balanced amphiphilicity renders the copolymers water-soluble but strongly affine for surfaces.