“…While some earlier pioneering studies in this field have focused on polymeric materials (Hanein et al, 2001;Owen et al, www.ecmjournal.org E Kaivosoja et al Micro-patterned surfaces 2005;Biggs et al, 2007a;Biggs et al, 2007b;Hart et al, 2007;Kunzler et al, 2007), with only one study conducted on metallic materials patterned on a silicon background (Berry et al, 2007). Some other cell types have also been evaluated, in particular on gold-silicon textured surfaces (Lan et al, 2005;Veiseh et al, 2004). Further to this, only neuroblastoma cells have previously been investigated on diamond like carbon (DLC)-silicon micro-textured surfaces (Kelly et al, 2008).…”