A practical guide to quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring of thin polymer films

AD Easley, T Ma, CI Eneh, J Yun… - Journal of Polymer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) monitoring is a powerful tool used to
sensitively examine the real‐time responses of polymer films to external responses. For …

Spectroscopic ellipsometry and quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation for the assessment of polymer layers and for the application in biosensing

I Plikusiene, V Maciulis, A Ramanavicius… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polymers represent materials that are applied in almost all areas of modern life, therefore,
the characterization of polymer layers using different methods is of great importance. In this …

Investigation of bovine serum albumin (BSA) attachment onto self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) using combinatorial quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation …

HTM Phan, S Bartelt-Hunt, KB Rodenhausen… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Understanding protein adsorption kinetics to surfaces is of importance for various
environmental and biomedical applications. Adsorption of bovine serum albumin to various …

Hydrophilic aldehyde-functional polymer brushes: synthesis, characterization, and potential bioapplications

EE Brotherton, EC Johnson, MJ Smallridge… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Surface-initiated activators regenerated by electron transfer atom transfer radical
polymerization (ARGET ATRP) is used to polymerize a cis-diol-functional methacrylic …

Smart release of antimicrobial ZnO nanoplates from a pH-responsive keratin hydrogel

ME Villanueva, ML Cuestas, CJ Pérez, VC Dall… - Journal of colloid and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A smart antibacterial biomaterial based on a keratin hydrogel with pH-dependent behavior
and Zinc Oxide nanoplates as biocide agent has been developed. The pH of a chronic …

Enzyme immobilization in polyelectrolyte brushes: High loading and enhanced activity compared to monolayers

G Ferrand-Drake del Castillo, M Koenig, M Müller… - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
Catalysis by enzymes on surfaces has many applications. However, strategies for efficient
enzyme immobilization with preserved activity are still in need of further development. In this …

Induced-fit adsorption of diol-based porous organic polymers for tetracycline removal

S Zhang, Y Li, C Shi, F Guo, C He, Z Cao, J Hu, C Cui… - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Adsorption is recognized as one of the most efficient approaches for antibiotics removal from
water. Inspired by the enzyme-substrate interaction model, we proposed induced-fit …

Biofunctionalization of titanium substrates using nanoscale polymer brushes with cell adhesion peptides

A Rosenthal, A Mantz, A Nguyen, E Bittrich… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The grafting of polymer brushes to substrates is a promising method to modify surface
properties such as wettability and the affinity toward proteins and cells for applications in …

A sensitivity metric and software to guide the analysis of soft films measured by a quartz crystal microbalance

TP McNamara, CF Blanford - Analyst, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This article introduces a set of mathematical and computational tools for use with a quartz
crystal microbalance (QCM) to aid in experimental planning and data interpretation. The …

Establishing Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation (QCM‐D) Coupled with Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (SE) as an Advantageous Technique for the …

J Sans, I Azevedo Gonçalves, R Quintana - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the considerable significance of utilizing ultra‐thin film (utf) hydrogels as
multipurpose platforms for biomedical applications, there is still an important lack of …