Macrophage phagocytic activity toward adhering staphylococci on cationic and patterned hydrogel coatings versus common biomaterials

JF da Silva Domingues, S Roest, Y Wang… - Acta biomaterialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Biomaterial‐associated-infection causes failure of biomaterial implants. Many new
biomaterials have been evaluated for their ability to inhibit bacterial colonization and …

High sensitive and direct fluorescence detection of single viral DNA sequences by integration of double strand probes onto microgels particles

A Aliberti, AM Cusano, E Battista, F Causa, PA Netti - Analyst, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel class of probes for fluorescence detection was developed and combined to microgel
particles for a high sensitive fluorescence detection of nucleic acids. A double strand probe …

Ultra-large scale AFM of lipid droplet arrays: investigating the ink transfer volume in dip pen nanolithography

A Förste, M Pfirrmann, J Sachs, R Gröger… - …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
There are only few quantitative studies commenting on the writing process in dip-pen
nanolithography with lipids. Lipids are important carrier ink molecules for the delivery of bio …

Molecular Crowding Effects on Microgel-Tethered Oligonucleotide Probes

Y Ma, M Libera - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
Microgel tethering is a nontraditional method with which to bind oligonucleotide
hybridization probes to a solid surface. Microgel-tethering physically positions the probes …

Synthesis of quaternary ammonium coated surfaces: Physico-chemistry, bacterial killing and phagocytosis

S Roest - 2016 - research.rug.nl
The number one cause of failure of biomaterial implants and devices is the occurrence of
biomaterial-associated infection. A universal method to create biomaterial implants and …