Porous silicon is a substrate highly compatible with living cells!Particularly after treatment of the surface with adhesive serum proteins, primary rat hepatocytes are easily attached while staying viable (shown by fluorescence microscopy with a vital dye—see Figure). Cells thus immobilized remain active even over a two week period, as their unchanged albumin and urea production reveals.
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Chin et al. (2001) studied this question.