Burr-like, laser-made 3D microscaffolds for tissue spheroid encagement.

abstract：:The authors present surface engineering modifications through chemistry of poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) that have dramatic effects on the result of surface-bound fluorescence immunoassays, both for specific and nonspecific signals. The authors deduce the most important effect to be clustering of antibodies on the s...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Akers PW,Hoai Le NC,Nelson ARJ,McKenna M,O'Mahony C,McGillivray DJ,Gubala V,Williams DE

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The peculiar Cuvierian tubules of sea cucumbers function as a defense mechanism. They thwart attacks by creating a sticky network composed of elongated tubules within which the potential predator is entangled in a matter of seconds and thus immobilized. Cuvierian tubules are typical instantaneous adhesive organs in wh...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Demeuldre M,Chinh Ngo T,Hennebert E,Wattiez R,Leclère P,Flammang P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Diamond has outstanding bulk properties such as super hardness, chemical inertness, biocompatibility, luminescence, to name just a few. In the nanoworld, in order to exploit these outstanding bulk properties, the surfaces of nanodiamond (ND) particles must be accordingly engineered for specific applications. Modificat...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Shenderova OA,McGuire GE

更新日期：2015-09-05 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：: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：:In this work, four triple negative (TN) cell lines, three ER+ and PR+ receptor positive (RP) cell lines, and one ER+, PR+, and HER2+ cell line were chemically distinguished from one another using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) and principal component analysis (PCA). PCA scores separation was...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Robinson MA,Graham DJ,Morrish F,Hockenbery D,Gamble LJ

更新日期：2015-06-28 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：: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：: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：:In this study, the authors report that sodium citrate can aggregate hexadecyl-trimethyl-ammonium ion(+)-coated gold nanorods (AuNRs), and nucleic acids of different charge and structure properties, i.e., single-stranded DNA (ssDNA), double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), single-stranded peptide nucleic acid (PNA), and PNA-DNA c...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Kanjanawarut R,Su X

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stable nitroxide radical TEMPO [(2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidin-1-yl)oxyl] has a multitude of applications in fields ranging from energy storage to biomedical applications and many more. However, to date, the processes of incorporating nitroxide radicals into thin-film coatings are laborious and not cost-effective, ...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Michl TD,Tran DTT,Böttle K,Kuckling HF,Zhalgasbaikyzy A,Ivanovská B,Cavallaro AA,Araque Toledo MA,Sherman PJ,Al-Bataineh SA,Vasilev K

更新日期：2020-06-26 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：: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：:Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has attracted intense interest owing to its unique properties and promising biosensor applications. To develop effective biocompatible platforms, it is crucial to understand the interactions between MoS2 and biological molecules such as proteins, but little knowledge exists ...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Fan H,Zhao D,Li Y,Zhou J

更新日期：2017-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Using infrared and Raman microspectroscopy, the authors examined the interaction of cold atmospheric plasma with the skin's built-in protective cushion, the outermost skin layer stratum corneum. Following a spectroscopic analysis, the authors could identify four prominent chemical alterations caused by plasma treatmen...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Kartaschew K,Mischo M,Baldus S,Bründermann E,Awakowicz P,Havenith M

更新日期：2015-06-06 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：:In plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, photosystem 2 (PS2) catalyzes the light driven oxidation of water. The main products of this reaction are protons and molecular oxygen. In vitro, however, it was demonstrated that reactive oxygen species like hydrogen peroxide are obtained as partially reduced side products. The tr...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Vöpel T,Ning Saw E,Hartmann V,Williams R,Müller F,Schuhmann W,Plumeré N,Nowaczyk M,Ebbinghaus S,Rögner M

更新日期：2015-03-22 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 aim was to compare the protein release from normal human osteoblasts (NHO) cultured on scaffolds with similar morphology but different coatings. Different ceramic coatings; TiO(2), SiO(2) and calcium phosphate (CaP); Ca(9)HPO(4)(PO(4))(5)OH, were applied to porous TiO(2) scaffolds prepared by polymer sponge replic...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Verket A,Tiainen H,Haugen HJ,Lyngstadaas SP,Nilsen O,Reseland JE

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface concentration gradient of two extracellular matrix (ECM) macromolecules was developed to study the migratory and morphological responses of astrocytes to molecular cues typically found in the central nervous system injury environment. The gradient, prepared using microcontact printing, was composed of rand...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Hsiao TW,Tresco PA,Hlady V

更新日期：2017-09-11 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：:Understanding how topographical cues can control cell behavior is a major fundamental question which is of particular interest for implant design. Recent findings show that cell-scale curvature, as well as nanoscale topography, can affect different aspects of cell migration. However, the correlation between specific c...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Belaud V,Petithory T,Ponche A,Mauclair C,Donnet C,Pieuchot L,Benayoun S,Anselme K

更新日期：2018-12-31 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：: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：:Fast and efficient osseointegration of implants into bone is of crucial importance for their clinical success; a process that can be enhanced by coating the implant surface with hydroxyapatite (HA) using the vacuum plasma spray technology (VPS). However, bacterial infections, especially the biofilm formation on implan...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Guimond-Lischer S,Ren Q,Braissant O,Gruner P,Wampfler B,Maniura-Weber K

更新日期：2016-03-10 00:00:00