Biofouling
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Subject Areas on Research
- A low-cost, rapid deposition method for "smart" films: applications in mammalian cell release.
- Aquatic biofouling prevention by electrically charged nanocomposite polymer thin film membranes.
- Bioinspired surfaces with dynamic topography for active control of biofouling.
- Biomimetic anchors for antifouling and antibacterial polymer brushes on stainless steel.
- Dynamic surface deformation of silicone elastomers for management of marine biofouling: laboratory and field studies using pneumatic actuation.
- Engineered antifouling microtopographies: the role of Reynolds number in a model that predicts attachment of zoospores of Ulva and cells of Cobetia marina.
- Evaluating the role of total organic carbon in predicting the treatment efficacy of biosand filters for the removal of Vibrio cholerae in drinking water during startup.
- Functional polymer brushes via surface-initiated atom transfer radical graft polymerization for combating marine biofouling.
- Improving sensitivity and specificity of capturing and detecting targeted cancer cells with anti-biofouling polymer coated magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles.
- Incorporation of silicone oil into elastomers enhances barnacle detachment by active surface strain.
- Interfacial tension analysis of oligo(ethylene glycol)-terminated self-assembled monolayers and their resistance to bacterial attachment.
- Layer-by-layer click deposition of functional polymer coatings for combating marine biofouling.
- Modification of Silicone Elastomer Surfaces with Zwitterionic Polymers: Short-Term Fouling Resistance and Triggered Biofouling Release.
- Multivariate analysis of attachment of biofouling organisms in response to material surface characteristics.
- Nanopatterned antimicrobial enzymatic surfaces combining biocidal and fouling release properties.
- Noradrenaline-functionalized hyperbranched fluoropolymer-poly(ethylene glycol) cross-linked networks as dual-mode, anti-biofouling coatings.
- Off the Shelf Fouling Management.
- Predicting glucose sensor behavior in blood using transport modeling: relative impacts of protein biofouling and cellular metabolic effects.
- Sediment challenge to promising ultra-low fouling hydrophilic surfaces in the marine environment.
- The oceans are changing: impact of ocean warming and acidification on biofouling communities.
- Variation in toxicity of copper pyrithione among populations and families of the barnacle, Balanus amphitrite.