Patent ID: 8703058

Claim:
A method for forming a functionalized porous polymer monolith, the method comprising: loading a liquid monolith precursor solution including a monomer species, a cross-linking-species, an initiator, an iniferter species, and a porogen solution into a microfluidic device; polymerizing the liquid solution, including activating the iniferter species, in a region of the microfluidic device to form a porous polymer monolith having pore sizes defined in part by the relative proportions of the constituents in the monolith precursor solution and having the iniferter species present on the surface of at least one pore; introducing biological molecules or other functional groups into pores of the monolith; and reactivating the iniferter species and grafting at least some of the biological molecules or functional groups onto the surface of at least one pore.