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5. Conclusions

5.4 Summary

It was shown in this PhD work that plasma modification of polymeric membrane surfaces is a unique method improving their tissue compatibility. Polyester, and polysulfon membranes were modified targeted successfully by a non-polymer forming ammonia and polymer forming allylamine plasma. Surfaces were characterised regarding to their chemical and physical properties, process parameters were optimised and surface methods were compared based on these observation. Biocompatibility of selected samples was investigated and compared to the plain membrane used as reference. It was shown that plasma polymerisation of allylamine is a more effective method with respect of surface modification compared to ammonia plasma, and also that biocompatibility of polymeric membranes can be increased this way.

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Acknowledgements

In the first place I would like to thank my wife Klaudia and my family to have encouraged me in times of need. Nevertheless I am also very grateful to my supervisor Dr Thomas Weigel from GKSS and Dr Gyula Marton from the University of Veszprém Institute of Chemical Engineering, Veszprém (Hungary). Special thanks to Prof. Dieter Paul, Dr Wolfgang Albrecht, Dr Thomas Groth, Dr Barbara Seifert, Doris Micheli and Ruth Hesse, for useful discussions, advises and many support for my work. I would like to thank Dr. Schossig-Tiedemann for performing SEM, and Dr Richau from the GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Chemistry, Teltow (Germany) for steaming potential measurements, moreover to Dr.

Katalin Josepovits from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Atomic Physics, Budapest (Hungary) for performing XPS measurements. Last but not least special thanks to Dr Jenő Hancsók my former supervisor at the University of Veszprém Institute of Chemical Engineering.

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