公开(公告)号：US20210324327A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-21

申请号：US17230335

申请日：2021-04-14

Applicant: Northwestern University

Inventor： Jonathan Rivnay ,  Anthony J. Petty ,  Erin Hsu

IPC: C12N5/00 ,  C08G61/12

Abstract: Conjugated, electrically conducting polymers (CPs) with the ability to covalently graft onto collagen and collagenic materials are provided. Also provided are methods of functionalizing biological tissues and other biological substrates with the CPs, and methods of using the functionalized biological substrates as cell and tissue growth scaffolds that harness the passive therapeutic benefits of CPs and use the enhanced conductivity provided by the scaffolds to stimulate cell growth and proliferation through the bulk of the biological substrate.