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This review describes the application of customized surface modifications using biomimetic polymers to attempt to reduce unspecific protein adsorption to the materials or promote specific cell adhesion to implants or tissue engineering scaffolds. Various polymers that are suited to suppress almost all unspecific protein interactions and underlying mechanisms of cell adhesion are presented and discussed...