Protein adsorption at solid surfaces plays a key role in many natural processes and has
therefore promoted a widespread interest in many research areas. Despite considerable …

There are many reasons to report on silica interacting with biomolecules. The most obvious
one is that on the Earth's crust, oxygen and silicon are the most abundant atomic species …

The present paper offers a review of recent (post-1980) work on amino acid adsorption and
thermal reactivity on oxide and sulfide minerals. This review is performed in the general …

Owing to their chemical and magnetic properties, magnetite nanoparticles are an interesting
adsorbing material for biomolecules. The understanding of the interactions of simple …

Silica nanoparticles (SNPs), one of the most widely researched materials in modern science,
are now commonly exploited in surface coatings, biomedicine, catalysis, and engineering of …

It has been speculated that the catechol (1, 2-dihydroxybenzene) functionality of marine
mussels is responsible for its strong and versatile adhesion on various wet surfaces. To …

First-principle calculations, especially by the density functional theory (DFT) methods, are
becoming a power technique to study molecular structure and properties of …

The structural mechanics of proteins that fold into functional shapes, polymers that
aggregate and form clusters, and organic macromolecules that bind to inorganic matter can …

A systematic computational study of the adsorption of 15 different amino acids (AA)(Gly, Ala,
Met, Phe, Ser, Thr, Cys, Tyr, Asn, Gln, Asp, Glu, His, Lys, and Arg) on a hydroxylated silica …

In situ IR and mass spectrometry evidence for the catalytic formation on SiO2 and TiO2
surfaces of glycine oligomers (poly‐Gly) up to 16 units long by successive feeding with …