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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"nanopatterned surfaces"”.
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Properties modification of nanopatterned surfaces functionalized with photo activated ligands
… nanostructures, by modifying the properties of nanopatterned surfaces with photoactive ligands, and other technologies. First I describe the development of an improved method for nanosphere lithography, a variation of the convective self-assembly technique. The method exhibited high …
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Effect of Nanoscale Surface Structures on Microbe-Surface Interactions
… grow as biofilms on living and non-living surfaces. The development of biofilms on non-living surfaces is significantly affected by the surface micro/nano topography. The main goal of this dissertation is to study the interaction between microorganisms and nanopatterned surfaces. In order …
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Inverse Design of Random Emitters in Nanophotonics
… our trace formulation for inverse design of nanopatterned surfaces that maximize spatially averaged surface-enhanced Raman (SERS) spectra from molecules distributed randomly throughout a material or fluid. This leads to radically different designs than optimizing SERS emission at a single …
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Applying scanning probe microscopy for the investigation of molecular self-assembly mechanisms and properties of designed nanomaterials
… for nanografting and nanoshaving produce local nanopatterned surfaces with properties that can be tailored by selected head group chemistries of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). Nanografting controls the vertical orientation of n-alkanethiols or á,ù-alkanedithiols to exclusively generate layers …
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Effect of Physical and Chemical Cues on Candida albicans Morphological Expression and Biofilm Formation
… diameter and spacing on polymeric fiber-coated surfaces. We further show that high throughput and high content techniques, such as Raman spectroscopy, can be used to track environmental and physical effects on the organism's resulting morphology and associated virulence. Findings from this …
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Experimental and theoretical investigation of the role of nanofibrous topography feature size on adhesion of Candida albicans
… ubiquitous in both natural and synthetic surfaces, are increasingly recognized to have wide-ranging effects on microorganism adhesion and biofilm development. In this thesis, bio-inspired nanofiber-coated polystyrene surfaces were developed to systematically investigate how highly ordered …
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Mineralized Bionanoparticle Pickering Emulsions
… TYMV, TMV) were employed to produce functional nanopatterned surfaces and interfaces by means of Pickering emulsions which were employed in biomimetic hydroxy apatite mineralization to produce inorganic biocompatible surfaces and hollow mineral spheres. The work accounts for the emerging …