This work examines protein adsorption on surfaces in an attempt to provide a fundamental understanding of the molecular-level mechanism for protein interactions with biomaterials. Carboxylic acid, amine, and hydroxyl terminated self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are used to model negatively, positively, and hydrophilic/neutrally charged surfaces, respectively. The adsorption of fibrinogen and lys...

We report direct measurements of entropic interactions of colloidal spheres in suspensions of rodlike fd bacteriophage. We investigate the influence of sphere size, rod concentration, and ionic strength on these interactions. Although the results compare favorably with a recent calculation, small discrepancies reveal entropic effects due to rod flexibility. At high salt concentrations, the pote...

Manganese (Mn) oxide is a ubiquitous metal oxide in sub-environments. The adsorption of Cd(II) on Mn oxide as function of adsorption time, pH, ionic strength, temperature, and initial Cd(II) concentration was investigated by batch techniques. The adsorption kinetics showed that the adsorption of Cd(II) on Mn oxide can be satisfactorily simulated by pseudo-second-order kinetic model with high co...

1. The Ca(2+)-activated adenosine triphosphatase of heavy meromyosin is maximally stimulated by lower relative molar concentrations of phenylmercuric acetate than are required with myosin. 2. Stimulation of the Ca(2+)-activated adenosine triphosphatase of both heavy meromyosin and myosin by thiol reagents is markedly affected by ionic strength, the effects being greater with the former than wit...

Parameters of equilibrium adsorption obtained from experiments using immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) were used to evaluate the applicability of the steric mass-action (SMA) model to describe the adsorption of lactoferrin to cryogel resin under different conditions. The adsorption of lactoferrin on continuous supermacroporous cryogel with immobilized Cu ions was evaluated in bat...