Patent ID: 7858337
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: A61F,A61L,C08J,G02C

Abstract:
1. A process for the manufacture of a composite material, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a hydrophobic organic bulk material; (b) applying a hydrophilic surface coating on the hydrophobic organic bulk material by first non-covalently attaching to the surface of the bulk material a water-soluble peptide comprising a hydrophobic moiety, wherein the water-soluble peptide is of the formula wherein A-C(O) is a radical selected from the group consisting of the radical of a fatty acid, the radical of an aromatic carboxylic acid and the radical of an araliphatic carboxylic acid, [NH-(peptide)-C(O)] is the radical of a polypeptide which is a statistical copolymer of lysine and more than one other amino acids selected from the group consisting of alanine, phenylalanine, serine, tyrosine and tryptophan, and wherein the molecular weight range M X (c) then chemically or enzymatically crosslinking said water-soluble peptide.