Journal article
Superwetting comonomers reduce adhesion of E. coli BL21
Abstract
The adhesion of Escherichia coli to copolymers of methacrylates and a trisiloxane-polyether acrylate surfactant was found to be at a minimum with copolymers containing a low (20%) fraction of the surfactant monomer. Rather than wettability, hardness, or water uptake, adhesion was found to be limited by the presence of low concentrations of bound surfactant that can interact with hydrophobic domains on the bacterium inhibiting anchoring to the …
Authors
Khan MF; Luong N; Kurian J; Brook MA
Journal
Chemical Communications, Vol. 53, No. 21, pp. 3050–3053
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Publication Date
March 9, 2017
DOI
10.1039/c6cc09984j
ISSN
1359-7345