Approaches to design a surface with tunable wettability: a review on surface properties

CG Jothi Prakash, R Prasanth - Journal of Materials Science, 2021 - Springer
Due to the wide application prospects in energy harvesting, conversion, and emission
control technology, wettability has gathered momentum in recent years. Surface wettability …

Plasma-controlled surface wettability: Recent advances and future applications

C Ma, A Nikiforov, D Hegemann… - International …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Materials with the desirable surface wettability are of key importance in diverse applications.
However, most of the existing chemical processes used for surface wettability control are …

Preventing peri-implantitis: the quest for a next generation of titanium dental implants

J Hasan, R Bright, A Hayles, D Palms… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Titanium and its alloys are frequently the biomaterial of choice for dental implant
applications. Although titanium dental implants have been utilized for decades, there are yet …

Tuning chemistry and topography of nanoengineered surfaces to manipulate immune response for bone regeneration applications

Z Chen, A Bachhuka, S Han, F Wei, S Lu… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Osteoimmunomodulation has informed the importance of modulating a favorable
osteoimmune environment for successful materials-mediated bone regeneration …

Biomaterial surface hydrophobicity-mediated serum protein adsorption and immune responses

RM Visalakshan, MN MacGregor… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The nature of the protein corona forming on biomaterial surfaces can affect the performance
of implanted devices. This study investigated the role of surface chemistry and wettability on …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma surface functionalization: A comprehensive review of advances in the quest for bioinstructive materials and interfaces

M Zhianmanesh, A Gilmour, MMM Bilek… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Surface biofunctionalization aims to create cell-instructive surfaces that control the behavior
of cells and modulate cellular interactions by incorporating cell signaling moieties at the …

Nature‐Inspired Biomimetic Surfaces for Controlling Bacterial Attachment and Biofilm Development

SV Oopath, A Baji, M Abtahi, TQ Luu… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The use of antibacterial and antifouling materials is widely being investigated to combat the
increasing risk associated with bacterial infections and the evolution of drug‐resistant …

[HTML][HTML] Progress towards standardized and validated characterizations for measuring physicochemical properties of manufactured nanomaterials relevant to nano …

X Gao, GV Lowry - NanoImpact, 2018 - Elsevier
Managing the risks of manufactured nanomaterials requires the ability to accurately and
reproducibly measure the physical and chemical properties of these materials that are …

Nanotopography-based strategy for the precise manipulation of osteoimmunomodulation in bone regeneration

Z Chen, A Bachhuka, F Wei, X Wang, G Liu, K Vasilev… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Immune cells play vital roles in regulating bone dynamics. Successful bone regeneration
requires a favourable osteo-immune environment. The high plasticity and diversity of …

Roughness-dependent hydrophobicity of polydimethylsiloxane grafted titanium thin films

F Foadi, N Celik, A Esidir, MS Onses - Surface and Coatings Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the wetting behavior of thin films is essential for advanced coatings
applications. This paper studies the roughness dependent hydrophobicity of titanium thin …