The aim of this study was to develop an effective primer to improve the adhesive property between all kinds of dental metal alloy and resin cement. To this end, we synthesized N,N'-dimethacryloylcystine (NDMCC) which had both disulfide functional group (to improve adhesion between precious metal alloy and resin) and carboxyl group (to improve adhesion between non-precious metal alloy and resin)...

Polymer coatings are frequently utilized to control and modify substrate properties. The performance of the coatings is often determined by the first polymer layers between the substrate and the bulk polymer material, which are termed interphase. Standard methods have failed to completely characterize this interphase, because its properties change significantly over a few nanometers. Here we de...

Morphogenetic mechanisms such as cell movement or tissue separation depend on cell attachment and detachment processes, which involve adhesion receptors as well as the cortical cytoskeleton. The interplay between the two components is of stunning complexity. Most strikingly, the binding energy of adhesion molecules is usually too small for substantial cell-cell attachment, pointing to a main de...

Recent wound healing assays using monoloayers of epithelial cells have observed highly correlated, complex cell motions that persist well beyond the wound border. Here, I use the gross dynamical behavior of a single crawling cell with a simple model for cell-cell interactions to explain the migratory dynamics and long-range correlations that occurs in epithelial monolayers. Three reasonable phy...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a multidrug-resistant pathogen and one of the leading causes of nosocomial infection worldwide. Probiotic bacteria play a significant role in preventive or therapeutic interventions of gastrointestinal infections in human as well as animals. In this study, we have investigated the adhesion property of the probiotic strain Lactobacillus ferme...

Here, a fluorine-free robust superhydrophobic coating was fabricated on the Al alloy substrate by simple and low-cost approach. Embed modified TiO2 nanoparticles onto semi-cured epoxy resin adhesive layer prominently reduces content of low-energy materials (stearic acid) coating. This prepared with hierarchical structures, re-entrant structures low surface energy shows superhydrophobic. The exc...