Citation:
Aggarwal, N., Lawson, K., Kershaw, M., Horvath, R. and Ramsden, J. 2009. Protein adsorption on heterogeneous surfaces. Applied physics letters, 94(8), paper 083110. DOI: 10.1063/1.3078397
Abstract:
The adsorption of the protein bovine serum albumin from an aqueous solution onto substrata made from pure silica, pure zirconia, and a mixture of the two has revealed that the adsorption behavior of the protein onto the mixture very significantly diverges from the corresponding mean of the behaviors with the pure substrata. A tentative explanation in terms of matching substratum heterogeneity with protein surface heterogeneity is offered.