Biofilms formed by antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) continue to be a problem for medical devices. Antibiotic resistant bacteria (such as S. aureus) often complicate the treatment and healing of the patient, yet, medical devices are needed to heal such patients. Therefore, methods to treat these Biofilms once formed on medical devices are badly needed. Due to their small si...

The Turkevich synthesis method of Au nanoparticles (AuNPs) was adopted for direct fabrication of SiO2@Au and TiO2@Au core-shell nanostructures. In this method, chloroauric acid was reduced with trisodium citrate in the presence of amine-functionalized silica or titania submicroparticles. Core-shells obtained in this way were compared to structures fabricated by mixing of Turkevich AuNPs with am...

In atomic force microscopy (AFM) a sharp cantilever tip is used to scan surfaces at the atomic level. One further application is force spectroscopy, in which force-distance curves between binding partners located on the cantilever and substrate surface are determined. This requires specifically immobilized molecules. Herein we describe the covalent binding of single adenosine and thymidine nucl...

We report a robust and practical method for the preparation of water-soluble luminescent quantum dots (QDs) selectively coupled through an amine or thiol linkage to peptide ligands targeted to G-protein coupling receptors (GPCRs) and demonstrate their utility in whole-cell and single-molecule imaging. We utilized a low molecular weight ( approximately 1200 Da) diblock copolymer with acrylic aci...

We describe a facile approach for nanopatterning of photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes over macroscopic areas, and use optical spectroscopy to demonstrate retention of native properties by both site-specifically and non-specifically attached photosynthetic membrane proteins. A Lloyd's mirror dual-beam interferometer was used to expose self-assembled monolayers of amine-terminated alkylth...

We report an oriented glyco-macroligand formation and its glyco-affinity capturing and glycoarray application by combining an O-cyanate chain-end functionalized glycopolymer with commercially available amine-functionalized silica gel and glass slides via isourea bond formation. The O-cyanate chain-end functionalized glycopolymer was synthesized via cyanoxyl-mediated free-radical polymerization ...

This work reports, immobilization the Cobaloxime [Co (DH) Cl;DH,dimethylglyoximato)] onto the MCM- .The surface of MCM- was initially functionalized with -aminopropyltrimethoxysilane and -pyridine. For the electrostatic immobilization this was reacted with Cobaloxime and immobilization was achieved by an electrostatic interaction between the Co Cobaloxime and the N of the pyridine and NH amine....