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ECM Protein Nanofibers and Nanostructures Engineered Using Surface-initiated Assembly
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2014
A method to obtain nanofibers and complex nanostructures from single or multiple extracellular matrix proteins is described. This method uses protein-surface interactions to create free-standing protein-based materials with tunable composition and architecture for use in a variety of tissue engineering and biotechnology applications.
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Preparation of Thermoresponsive Nanostructured Surfaces for Tissue Engineering
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2016
Nanoscaled sea-island surfaces composed of thermoresponsive block copolymers were fabricated by the Langmuir-Schaefer method for controlling spontaneous cell adhesion and detachment. Both the preparation of the surface and the adhesion and detachment of cells on the surface were visualized.
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Protein Engineering by Yeast Surface Display
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2024
This protocol describes the essential steps for conducting yeast surface display selection campaigns to enrich protein variants binding to an antigen of interest.
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Surface Engineering of Pancreatic Islets with a Heparinized StarPEG Nanocoating
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2018
This protocol aims to achieve surface engineering of pancreatic islets using a heparin-incorporated starPEG nanocoating via pseudo-bioorthogonal chemistry between the N-hydroxysuccinimide groups of the nanocoating and the amine groups of islet cell membrane.
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Engineering Antiviral Agents via Surface Plasmon Resonance
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2022
The present protocol describes new tools for SPR binding assays to examine CV-N binding to HA, S glycoprotein, related hybrid-type glycans, and high-mannose oligosaccharides. SPR is used to determine the KD for binding either dimeric or monomeric CV-N to these glycans.
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Surface energy influences how readily a material interacts with a contacting liquid, solid, or surrounding environment. Adjusting the outer layer can therefore change whether a surface is more wettable and how strongly another material adheres to it. This control is useful when interfacial contact must be tuned without changing the bulk material beneath.
Adsorption places chemical species at the surface, while chemical functionalization changes the surface by introducing or modifying chemical groups. Both approaches alter surface composition and can influence reactivity, wettability, adhesion, or compatibility. Their value comes from targeting the interface directly, allowing its behavior to change while the underlying material retains its original bulk properties.
Coating adds a designed layer, deposition forms material at the surface, and plasma treatment modifies the outer region through a plasma-based process. These strategies can change surface composition, structure, or energy in different ways. The appropriate choice depends on which interfacial property must be controlled, such as reactivity, resistance to corrosion or wear, adhesion, or wettability.
Wettability, adhesion, reactivity, and resistance to corrosion or wear are central performance variables. They depend on the composition, structure, and energy of the outermost layers, rather than only on the bulk material. Controlling these properties helps match a surface to its surroundings and can improve durability, selectivity, or compatibility in a particular application.
Treatment selection should begin with the required interfacial outcome and the bulk properties that must remain unchanged. Researchers can then choose among adsorption, chemical functionalization, coating, deposition, or plasma treatment according to whether composition, structure, or surface energy needs adjustment. The result should be evaluated in terms of the targeted wettability, adhesion, reactivity, durability, or compatibility.
Surface engineering supports catalysis, sensors, separations, energy technologies, biomedical materials, and manufacturing. In each area, the modified interface can determine how a material interacts with molecules, liquids, neighboring materials, or its environment. This makes surface control relevant when researchers need specific reactivity, selectivity, durability, corrosion or wear resistance, or biological compatibility.
Chemical changes at an interface can produce measurable differences in how a material behaves in use. By controlling surface composition, structure, or energy, researchers connect molecular-scale interactions with outcomes such as selectivity, durability, and compatibility. The approach is especially important when the outer layer governs performance, even though the material’s underlying bulk remains largely unchanged.