Molecular plasma deposited peptides on anodized nanotubular titanium: an osteoblast density study.

A large amount of work is currently being conducted to design, fabricate, and characterize materials coated or immobilized with bioactive molecules for tissue engineering applications. Here, a novel method, molecular plasma deposition (MPD), is introduced with can efficiently coat materials with numerous bioactive peptides. Specifically, here, RGDS (arginine-glycine-aspartic acid-serine), KRSR (lysine-arginine-serine-arginine), and IKVAV (isoleucine-lysine-valine-alanine-valine) were coated on anodized nanotubular titanium using MPD.