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CONSIDERABLE efforts are being made to understand better the interaction of blood with synthetic as well as natural surfaces and to develop materials that are compatible with blood1–5. The compatibility of blood with surfaces has been associated chiefly with ionic charges based on the observations that the endothelial wall, the platelets and the plasma proteins carry net anionic charges in normal physiological conditions6. The possible role of electronic conduction and semiconduction in blood compatibility, by contrast with mere ionic interactions, has not, however, been demonstrated before. I describe here observations in support of such a role.
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BRUCK, S. Intrinsic Semiconduction, Electronic Conduction of Polymers and Blood Compatibility. Nature 243, 416–417 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243416a0
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