Monolayer modification to gold coated stents to reduce adsorption of protein

摘要

A stent has a body and a surface with at least a portion of the surface comprising metal with a coating thereon. The coating is selected from the group consisting of thiols and disulfides and combinations thereof. The thiols are of the form R-SH and the disulfide of the form R-S-S-R'' where R is an alkyl group and R'' is an alkyl group. The metal is selected from the group consisting of noble metals, silver and copper.