Impact of Surface Biofouling on Controlled Drug Release from Conductive Polymer Films and Its Mitigation Using Lubricin (Proteoglycan 4) Antifouling Coatings

Financial support for this project was provided by the Australian Research Council through an Industrial Transformation Research Hub (IH240100013) and internal funding provided by the School of Agriculture, Biomedicine, and Environment at La Trobe University. The authors thank Lubris BioPharma for supporting this research through the donation of recombinant LUB materials. Part of this work was performed at the ANFF-VIC Biointerface Engineering Hub and part at the ANFF-VIC Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility. A company established under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy to provide nano and microfabrication facilities for Australian researchers.