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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Anti-biofouling"”.
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Development and evaluation of anti-biofouling nano-composite coatings
… using the water as a coolant suffer from biofouling problem, which reduces heat transfer performance significantly. The cost of cleaning and lost output can be extremely high. The high incidence of infections caused by the biofilm formation on the surfaces of medical devices and implants, …
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Self-organized nanostructures for the design of bioinspired anti-biofouling interfaces
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Engineering tough, hygroscopic, and active hydrogels for surgical simulation and anti-biofouling
… of contexts, including tissue engineering, anti-fouling, drug release, medical devices, and flexible electronics. The usefulness of hydrogels in these contexts stems from their structure, consisting of a 3D cross-linked polymer network containing mostly water. This structure leads to a …
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Design of anti-biofouling Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces (LIS) robust to cell-growth-induced instability
… deposition of cells on wetted solids, so-called biofouling, is a serious operational and environmental threat in many underwater and biomedical applications. Over the last decade, Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces (LIS) has been one of the popular remedies, owing to its unique oil layer that …
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Synthesis and investigation of UV-cured, complex amphiphilic polymer films for use in anti-biofouling applications
… included the development of novel amphiphilic anti-fouling coatings having complex surface topography and compositional heterogeneity and a fundamental investigation of their properties. These films were cultivated as non-fluorinated or non-fluorinated/non-PEGylated analogs to the hyperbranched …
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Polysulfone ultrafiltration membranes impregnated with silver nanoparticles show improved biofouling resistance and virus removal
Biofouling and virus penetration are two significant obstacles in water treatment membrane filtration. Biofouling reduces membrane permeability, increases energy costs, and decreases the lifetime of membranes. In order to effectively remove viruses, nanofiltration or reverse osmosis (both high …
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The water purification robustness of metal-organic framework-polyamide nanocomposite thin films toward long term organic, inorganic, and bacterial contamination
… solutes, high-performance membranes, and fouling/biofouling. Biofouling is particularly challenging when FO is applied for seawater desalination and wastewater treatment. Over the last decade, many attempts have been made to exploit advances in materials science to obtain membranes with …
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Design and manufacturing of PDMS micro structures with dynamic inclination angle
… non- and directional wetting, self-cleaning, anti-biofouling and energy efficient surface textures. This work focuses on designing new dynamic surfaces that can change their micro and nanoscale texture due to in-plane mechanical strain. The studied textured surfaces have vertical 1D …
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Integration Of Fermentation And Organic Synthesis: Studies Of Roquefortine C And Biosynthetic Derivatives
… impart a wide array of biological activity, from anti-bacterial activity and antiproliferative activity against cancer cell lines to anti-biofouling against marine organisms. Despite the promise of these compounds in the pharmaceutical and materials industries, few syntheses of triazaspirocycles …
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Controlling Biofouling by Surface Engineering and Molecular Inhibition
… all the chapters in this dissertation is <em>anti-biofouling chemistry</em>. By utilizing tools of surface engineering and molecular inhibition, a hypothesis driven, systematic approach of controlling the different forms of biofoulings such as protein adsorption, mammalian cell adhesion and …
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BIOFUNCTIONALIZATION ON HYDROGEN-TERMINATED SILICON(111) SURFACES
… the ability to block nonspecific bindings. The anti-biofouling property of the grafted film was tested to be similar to that of the OEG-presenting film formed by pre-assembled strategy. To develop a versatile method to tune the electrochemical property of the films, we immobilized …
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Vibrating lubricant-infused porous surface for enhanced liquid droplet transport
… using SLIPS to achieve complex fluids handling, anti-fouling, self-cleaning, anti-icing, and enhanced condensation heat transfer. In recent studies of droplet dynamics on SLIPS, it was observed that a moving droplet on the lubricant film follows lubrication theory and the Landau-Levich law — …
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Controlling Microbial Colonization and Biofilm Formation Using Topographical Cues
… spherical particles as a novel topography-based anti-biofouling coating. It also provides new insights on the effects of surface topography, especially local curvature, on cell–surface and cell–cell interactions during the evolution of biofilms. I investigated the adhesion, colonization, and …