Water contact angle values for black LN at the various steps of surface modification (Averaged over three trials with standard deviation for each step of surface modification).
The authors are grateful to Dr. Peter Brodersen (Ontario Centre for the Characterization of Advanced Materials, formerly Surface-Interface Ontario) for assistance with XPS measurements, Dr. Sonia Sheikh for valuable scientific discussion and constructive feedback, and Professors Robert Batey and Andrei Yudin (University of Toronto) for the provision of critical chemicals.
Author contributions
EC: Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing—review & editing. AK: Writing—review & editing. MT: Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing, Validation, Supervision. All authors read and approved the submitted version.
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Michael Thompson, who is the Editorial Board Member of Exploration of BioMat-X, had no involvement in the decision-making or the review process of this manuscript. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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