Quantification of biological or biochemical processes are of utmost importance for medical,
biological and biotechnological applications. However, converting the biological information …

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 …

Proteins are biopolymers of highly varied structures taking part in almost all processes
occurring in living cells. When nanoparticles (NPs) interact with proteins in biological …

The Handbook of Ellipsometry is a critical foundation text on an increasingly critical subject.
Ellipsometry, a measurement technique based on phase and amplitude changes in …

Protein adsorption is considered to be the most important factor of the interaction between
polymeric biomaterials and body fluids or tissues. Water‐mediated hydrophobic and …

Over the last 2 decades, the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM or QCM-D) has emerged as
a versatile tool for investigating soft and solvated interfaces between solid surfaces and bulk …

This book is one of the results from the PETRA network (PiezoElectric TRansducers and
Applications) following the execution of the project PETRA I co-financed by the European …

The interaction of bovine serum albumin (BSA) with gold colloids and surfaces was studied
using ζ-potential and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) measurements, respectively, to …

The structure of the adsorbing layers of native and denatured proteins (fibrinogen, γ-
immunoglobulin, albumin, and lysozyme) was studied on hydrophilic TiO 2 and hydrophobic …

Recent experimental and theoretical work clarifying the physical chemistry of blood-protein
adsorption from aqueous-buffer solution to various kinds of surfaces is reviewed and …