Coated nanodiamonds interact with tubulin beta-III negative cells of adult brain tissue.

abstract：:Photocorrosion of semiconductors is strongly sensitive to the presence of surface states, and it could be influenced by electrically charged molecules immobilized near the semiconductor/electrolyte interface. The underlying mechanism is related to band bending of the semiconductor structure near the surface and the as...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Aziziyan MR,Hassen WM,Morris D,Frost EH,Dubowski JJ

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigate membrane composition-mediated interactions between proteins adsorbed onto a two-component lipid bilayer close to critical demixing using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations and a phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory. The simulations consist of three-bead lipids and platelike protei...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Reynwar BJ,Deserno M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unmodified gelatin (uG) is widely used as a coating material in cell culture for improving surface properties. In this study, the authors investigated if gelatin methacrylamide (GM) with a medium degree of methacrylamide modification (GM1.5) and a high degree of methacrylamide modification (GM4) are equally suitable f...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Egger M,Tovar GE,Hoch E,Southan A

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure, orientation, and formation of amphiphilic alpha-helix model peptide films on fluorocarbon surfaces has been monitored with sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy, near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy, and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The alpha-helix...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Weidner T,Samuel NT,McCrea K,Gamble LJ,Ward RS,Castner DG

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and controlling the performance of engineered nanoparticle (NP) systems is greatly assisted by quantitative characterization of their coatings. Useful measurements methods have been described for NPs in liquid environment, but NP aggregation often represents a limiting factor which impairs the accuracy o...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Minelli C,Shard AG

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhalation of combustion-derived ultrafine particles (≤0.1 μm) has been found to be associated with pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. However, correlation of the physicochemical properties of carbon-based particles such as surface charge and agglomeration state with adverse health effects has not yet been establi...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Durantie E,Barosova H,Drasler B,Rodriguez-Lorenzo L,Urban DA,Vanhecke D,Septiadi D,Hirschi-Ackermann L,Petri-Fink A,Rothen-Rutishauser B

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the morphological and chemical modification of the cell structure of aerosolized Escherichia coli treated with a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD). Exposure to DBD results in severe oxidation of the bacteria, leading to the formation of hydroxyl groups and carbonyl groups and a significant reducti...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Romero-Mangado J,Nordlund D,Soberon F,Deane G,Maughan K,Sainio S,Singh G,Daniels S,Saunders IT,Loftus D,Meyyappan M,Koehne J,Gandhiraman RP

更新日期：2016-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Collecting information at the interface between living cells and artificial substrates is exceedingly difficult. The extracellular matrix (ECM) mediates all cell-substrate interactions, and its ordered, fibrillar constituents are organized with nanometer precision. The proceedings at this interface are highly dynamic ...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Diesner MO,Welle A,Kazanci M,Kaiser P,Spatz J,Koelsch P

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This contribution reports on grafting of bioactive polymers such as poly(sodium styrene sulfonate) (polyNaSS) onto titanium (Ti) surfaces. This grafting process uses a modified dopamine as an anchor molecule to link polyNaSS to the Ti surface. The grafting process combines reversible addition-fragmentation chain trans...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Chouirfa H,Evans MDM,Castner DG,Bean P,Mercier D,Galtayries A,Falentin-Daudré C,Migonney V

更新日期：2017-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Not only bacteria but also fungal pathogens, particularly Candida species, can lead to biofilm infections on biomedical devices. By covalent grafting of the antifungal drug caspofungin, which targets the fungal cell wall, onto solid biomaterials, a surface layer can be created that might be able to provide long-term p...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Griesser SS,Jasieniak M,Coad BR,Griesser HJ

更新日期：2015-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been much recent interest in the protein "corona," the nonspecific adsorption of proteins on the surface of nanoparticles used in biological applications. This research investigates an analogous DNA corona. We find that particles (200 nm and 1 μm) incubated with DNA form a DNA corona, with a higher concentra...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Griffith DM,Jayaram DT,Spencer DM,Pisetsky DS,Payne CK

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is a dissimilatory metal-reducing bacterium capable of reducing various metal and sulfur compounds and precipitating them in nanoparticulate form. Here, we report the synthesis of molybdenum disulfide nanomaterials at the site of S. oneidensis biofilms grown in the presence of molybdenum tri...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Rees JD,Gorby YA,Sawyer SM

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:As an antibiotic that prevents and treats infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin incorporated in a biodegradable polymer poly(lactide-co-glycolide) provides opportunities to construct controlled-release drug delivery systems. Developments associated with this promising sy...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Du L,Yang X,Li W,Li H,Feng S,Zeng R,Yu B,Xiao L,Liu Y,Tu M,Nie HY

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Reliable, direct "sample-to-answer" capture of nucleic acid targets from complex media would greatly improve existing capabilities of DNA microarrays and biosensors. This goal has proven elusive for many current nucleic acid detection technologies attempting to produce assay results directly from complex real-world sa...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Lee CY,Gamble LJ,Grainger DW,Castner DG

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in three-dimensional secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) imaging have enabled visualizing the subcellular distributions of various lipid species within individual cells. However, the difficulty of locating organelles using SIMS limits efforts to study their lipid compositions. Here, the authors have assess...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Chini CE,Fisher GL,Johnson B,Tamkun MM,Kraft ML

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Friction force microscopy was employed for the tribological investigation of human head hair in two different environments: a dry atmosphere and de-ionized water. The fibers were immobilized by embedding them in indium. The effects of bleaching, conditioning, and immersion in methanolic KOH were quantified in terms of...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Nikogeorgos N,Fletcher IW,Boardman C,Doyle P,Ortuoste N,Leggett GJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise use of nanoparticles in technological applications requires control over their surface properties. This implies the ability to quantitatively describe, for example, molecular coatings in terms of their thickness, areal mass, or number of molecules. Here, the authors describe two different approaches to the...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Belsey NA,Shard AG,Minelli C

更新日期：2015-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common bulk acoustic wave device used in biosensing applications is the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), in which a resonant pure shear acoustic wave is excited via electrodes on both major faces of a thin AT-cut quartz plate. For biosensing, the QCM is used to detect the capture of a target by a target-cap...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Hartz JSR,Emanetoglu NW,Howell C,Vetelino JF

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year, the United States spends about $20 billion to treat people who have been infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria. Even so, the development of new antibiotics has slowed considerably since the mid-20th century. As a result, researchers are looking into developing synthetic compounds and materials with an...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Wilde KN,Nguyen PAH,Whitten DG,Canavan HE

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of magnesium alloys as biomaterials is limited by their poor corrosion behavior. Microarc oxidation (MAO) treatment was used to prepare ceramic coatings on ZK60 magnesium alloys in order to overcome the poor corrosion resistance. The process was conducted at different current densities (3.5 and 9.0 A/d...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： You Q,Yu H,Wang H,Pan Y,Chen C

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular endothelial cells (EC) extracellular matrix (ECM) on the biomaterial surface can significantly improve the blood compatibility and cell compatibility of the cardiovascular materials. In the present study, two types of micropatterned TiO2 nanotubes surfaces (gronano and toponano) were fabricated on the tit...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Wu J,Li J,Wu F,He Z,Yang P,Huang N

更新日期：2015-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid-supported bilayer lipid membranes (SBLMs) containing membrane protein have been generated through a simple lipid dilution technique. SBLM formation from mixtures of native Escherichia coli bacterial inner membrane (IM) vesicles diluted with egg phosphatidylcholine (egg PC) vesicles has been explored with dissipa...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Dodd CE,Johnson BR,Jeuken LJ,Bugg TD,Bushby RJ,Evans SD

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated that electric fields can minimize surface adhesion of bacteria, but how they affect the near-surface bacterial dynamics has remained largely overlooked. In the present study, the three-dimensional motions of Escherichia coli (E. coli) HCB1 and HCB1414 near a conductive surface under alternatin...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Zhou X,Qi M,Huang G,Ma C,Bao L,Gong X,Zhang G,Zeng EY

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a facile method for the selective immobilization of biomolecules onto a gold surface that was preactivated by a polymeric adlayer. The polymeric adlayer was designed to perform triple functions: high resistance to nonspecific protein adsorption, efficient surface anchoring, and subsequent covalent a...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Lee BS,Park S,Lee KB,Jon S,Choi IS

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface plasmon resonance immunosensor for the detection of bacterial cells was first reported in 1998 with high detection limit as much as 107 cfu/ml. Since then, many efforts have been made aiming to lower the detection limit and improve the sensitivity of detection. The aim of this study was to compare the effect o...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Taheri RA,Rezayan AH,Rahimi F,Mohammadnejad J,Kamali M

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Titanium dental implants are commonly used for the replacement of lost teeth, but they present a considerable number of failures due to the infection on surrounding tissues. The aim of this paper is the development of a polyethylene glycol-like (PEG-like) coating on the titanium surface by plasma polymerization to obt...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Buxadera-Palomero J,Canal C,Torrent-Camarero S,Garrido B,Javier Gil F,Rodríguez D

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Coatings of biomaterials or implants that facilitate biomineralization possess a great potential for applications focused to the replacement, augmentation, and regeneration of bone tissue. Biomimetic approaches utilize biomolecules for either templating or supporting the crystallization process. One of these promising...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Grohmann S,Rothe H,Eisenhuth S,Hoffmann C,Liefeith K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dodecin from Halobacterium salinarum is a dodecameric, hollow-spherical protein, which unspecifically adopts flavin molecules. Reduction of flavin dodecin holocomplexes induces dissociation into apododecin and free flavin. Unspecific binding and dissociation upon reduction were used as key properties to construct an e...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Grininger M,Nöll G,Trawöger S,Sinner EK,Oesterhelt D

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are mimics of oligonucleotides containing a neutral peptidelike backbone and are able to bind complementary DNA targets with high affinity and selectivity. In order to investigate the effect of the ionic strength of the buffer solution, hybridization experiments with PNAs as (catcher) prob...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Park H,Germini A,Sforza S,Corradini R,Marchelli R,Knoll W

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft x-ray spectromicroscopy techniques have seen great amount of development in the recent years, and with the development of new diffraction limited synchrotron source, many new nanoscale and mesoscale characterization opportunities of applied materials are foreseen. In this perspective, the authors present some exa...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Dietrich PM,Unger WE,Swaraj S

更新日期：2016-10-28 00:00:00