Comparison of the fouling release properties of hydrophobic fluorinated and hydrophilic PEGylated block copolymer surfaces: Attachment strength of the diatom Navicula and the green alga Ulva

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1449-1462

  Krishnan, Sitaraman ^a   Wang, Nick ^a   Ober, Christopher K ^a   Finlay, John A ^b   Callow, Maureen E ^b   Callow, James A ^b   Hexemer, Alexander ^c   Sohn, Karen E ^c   Kramer, Edward J ^c   Fischer, Daniel A ^d  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Santa Barbara   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ALGAE; BIOMASS; CELLS; CHANNEL FLOW; FOULING; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SHEAR STRESS;

DIATOM NAVICULA; GREEN ALGA ULVA; WETTABILITY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

COPOLYMER; MACROGOL; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CELL ADHESION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORINATION; GREEN ALGA; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; WETTABILITY;

BIOPOLYMERS; CELL ADHESION; CYTOKINESIS; DIATOMS; FLUOROCARBON POLYMERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SPORES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS; ULVA; WATER;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; NAVICULA; ULVA;

EID: 33744775634     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm0509826     Document Type: Article

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