Protein adsorption on heterogeneous surfaces
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2009-02-23
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Aggarwal, N., Lawson, K., Kershaw, M., Horvath, R. and Ramsden, J. 2009. Protein adsorption on heterogeneous surfaces. Applied physics letters, 94(8), paper 083110.
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.