Vacuum plasma sprayed coatings using ionic silver doped hydroxyapatite powder to prevent bacterial infection of bone implants.

abstract：:Nanodiamond (ND) particles are popular platforms for the immobilization of molecular species. In the present research, enzyme Escherichia coli inorganic pyrophosphatase (PPase) was immobilized on detonation ND through covalent or noncovalent bonding and its enzymatic activity was characterized. Factors affecting adsor...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Rodina EV,Valueva AV,Yakovlev RY,Vorobyeva NN,Kulakova II,Lisichkin GV,Leonidov NB

更新日期：2015-12-21 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：: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：: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

abstract：:The use of nanoparticles is one of the fastest expanding fields in industrial as well as in medical applications, owing to their remarkable characteristics. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are among the most-commercialized nanoparticles because of their antibacterial effects. Laser postionization secondary neutral mass s...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Nees R,Pelster A,Körsgen M,Jungnickel H,Luch A,Galla HJ,Arlinghaus HF

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofunctionalized surfaces for implants are currently receiving much attention in the health care sector. Our aims were (1) to create bioactive Ti-coatings doped with Ca, P, Si, and Ag produced by microarc oxidation (MAO) to improve the surface properties of biomedical implants, (2) to investigate the TiO2 layer stabi...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Marques Ida S,Alfaro MF,Saito MT,da Cruz NC,Takoudis C,Landers R,Mesquita MF,Nociti Junior FH,Mathew MT,Sukotjo C,Barão VA

更新日期：2016-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Living confluent fish fibroblast cells RTG-P1 from rainbow trout adherent on diamond were examined by attenuated total reflection (ATR) infrared (IR) spectroscopy. In particular, IR spectra were recorded dynamically during the adsorption of the cells onto the diamond and during their biochemically induced structural r...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Schmidt M,Wolfram T,Rumpler M,Tripp CP,Grunze M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is well known that the textural properties of scaffolds play an important role in the process of tissue regeneration, the investigation of such effects remain difficult especially at the micro/nano level. Texture confers the material the additional ability to entrap/concentrate molecules circulating in the...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Espanol M,Casals I,Lamtahri S,Valderas MT,Ginebra MP

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Force spectroscopy has been used to measure the adhesion of Saos-2 cells to a glass surface at different phases of the cell cycle. The cells were synchronized in three phases of the cell cycle: G(1), S, and G(2)M. Cells in these phases were compared with unsynchronized and native mitotic cells. Individual cells were a...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Weder G,Vörös J,Giazzon M,Matthey N,Heinzelmann H,Liley M

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：: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：:The kinetics of adsorption and desorption of two highly asymmetrical model peptides were studied at methyl- and carboxylic acid-terminated alkylthiolate self-assembled monolayer (SAM) surfaces on gold. The model peptides were leucine-lysine (LK), α-helical (LKα14), and β-strand (LKβ15) peptides that have a well-define...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Apte JS,Gamble LJ,Castner DG,Campbell CT

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A drug-eluting coating applied onto biomedical devices and implants is an appropriate way to ensure that an inhibitory concentration of antimicrobial drugs is present at the device surface, thus preventing surface colonization and subsequent biofilm formation. In this study, a thin polymer coating was applied to mater...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Naderi J,Giles C,Saboohi S,Griesser HJ,Coad BR

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal process growth is guided by extrinsic environmental cues such as extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins. Recent reports have described that the growth cone extension is superior across gradients of the ECM protein laminin compared to growth across uniformly distributed laminin. In this work, the authors have pre...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Zander NE,Beebe TP Jr

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:Although protein-stabilized gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) have gathered recent attention as biocompatible peroxidase mimics, their practical utility has been critically limited by the low catalytic activity. Here, the authors have developed a nanohybrid material to significantly enhance the catalytic activity of AuNCs by ...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Cho S,Shin HY,Kim MI

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Supported phospholipid bilayers are interesting model systems for biologists and present fascinating physical properties. The authors present an extensive experimental study of the dynamic properties of supported bilayers. The structure and the equilibrium properties of single and double supported bilayers were invest...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Charitat T,Lecuyer S,Fragneto G

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photolithographic techniques have been used to fabricate polymer brush micro- and nanostructures. On exposure to UV light with a wavelength of 244 nm, halogens were selectively removed from films of chloromethylphenyltrichlorosilane and 3-(2-bromoisobutyramido)propyl-triethoxysilane on silicon dioxide. Patterning was ...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Ahmad SA,Leggett GJ,Hucknall A,Chilkoti A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are attractive as biomaterial coatings because they have broad spectrum activity against different microbes, with a low likelihood of incurring antimicrobial resistance. Direct action against the bacterial membrane is the most common mechanism of action (MOA) of AMPs, with specific MOAs d...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Alexander TE,Smith IM,Lipsky ZW,Lozeau LD,Camesano TA

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Dentin adhesive systems for composite tooth restorations are composed of hydrophilic/hydrophobic monomers, solvents, and photoinitiators. The adhesives undergo phase separation and concomitant compositional change during their application in the wet oral environment; phase separation compromises the quality of the hyb...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Parthasarathy R,Misra A,Song L,Ye Q,Spencer P

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on the characterization of the charge formation at supported bilayer lipid membranes (sBLMs) prepared from the zwitterionic lipid 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine on planar silicon dioxide substrates. The charging of the sBLMs was studied in KCl solutions of different ionic strengths be...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Zimmermann R,Küttner D,Renner L,Kaufmann M,Zitzmann J,Müller M,Werner C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aqueous stability of sputter coated ZnO thin films were studied on two base materials, viz., polycarbonate (PC) and glass. The films showed higher stability on PC compared to glass, when exposed to aqueous buffered solution at pH-7.4, as studied by x-ray diffraction, surface reflectometry, and inductively coupled plas...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Vallam Thodi F,Thendiyammal A,Mukundakumar B,Subbiah K,T Sainathan C

更新日期：2017-08-02 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：:Permanent implants made from titanium are widely used and successfully implemented in medicine to address problems related to orthopedic and oral disorders. However, implants that interact in all cases optimally and durably with bone tissue have yet to be developed. Here, the authors suggest a phospholipids 1-palmitoy...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Golub M,Lott D,Garamus VM,Laipple D,Stoermer M,Watkins EB,Schreyer A,Willumeit-Römer R

更新日期：2015-03-29 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：:Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are good nonviral carriers because of their ease of synthesis and conjugation in biochemistry, and self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) provide a tunable system to change their interfacial properties. Using homogeneously mixed carboxylic acid and amine functional groups, a series of surface pote...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Chang HY,You YW,Liao HY,Shyue JJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inspired by the composition of the native extracellular matrix, biomimetic polyelectrolyte multilayers were assembled from polypeptides and the glycosaminoglycan chondroitin sulfate (CS). To investigate whether peptide conformation imposes an effect on the cell biological functions of osteoblasts, the secondary struct...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Grohmann S,Rothe H,Liefeith K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

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：: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