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Cell-repellent Surfaces: Poster Award, 2nd Rank

The poster "Laser-induced microstructures on Ti substrates for reduced cell adhesion" by Johannes Heitz et al. received an award at the congress "Kardiologie im Zentrum" which took place on Oct. 21 - 22, 2017 at the Design Center in Linz. The poster reported on laser-induced micro-spikes with the property that mammalian cells can not adhere on these features. These functional surfaces may have interesting applications in the field of medical implants or prostheses, which have to be removed from the body some time after the implantation or which should be overgrown only partially. The work is part of the recently finished FFG project LaMiCell of a.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Johannes Heitz and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Werner Baumgartner at the Institute of Applied Physics and the Institute of Biomedical Mechatronics of the JKU Linz together with Prim. Dr. Doz. Clemens Steinwender of the Kepler University Hospital Linz. Also the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) in Berlin, Germany and the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Combinatorial Oxide Chemistry (at ICTAS, JKU) contributed to the poster.