Patent ID: 8425972

Claim:
A method comprising: providing an article; contacting the article with a first monomer comprising at least one vinyl or acrylate group in combination with a second monomer of formula: wherein R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are independently or all H or halogen, R 1 is a moiety selected from the group consisting of H, halogen, formyl, carboxyl, cyano, ester, amide, alkyl, alkoxy, oxoalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl and arylalkyl, at least one of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are substituted with a moiety selected from the group consisting of vinyl moieties and acrylate moieties; and polymerizing the first monomer and the second monomer wherein the first monomer is selected from the group consisting of 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine, 2-acryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine, and combinations thereof.