Investigating electrochemical removal of bacterial biofilms from stainless steel substrates

Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces

Volumn 117, Issue , 2014, Pages 152-157

  Dargahi, Mahdi ^a   Hosseinidoust, Zeinab ^a   Tufenkji, Nathalie ^a   Omanovic, Sasha ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

316L stainless steel; Biofilm removal; Electrochemistry; Hydrogen evolution; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; POLYMER MEMBRANE ELECTRODES; SUBSTRATES;

316 L STAINLESS STEEL; ELECTROCHEMICAL REMOVAL; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC MATRIXES; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAINLESS STEEL 316L; STAINLESS STEEL SUBSTRATES;

AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL;

HYDROGEN; STAINLESS STEEL;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; KINETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRODES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 84896998533     PISSN: 09277765     EISSN: 18734367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2014.02.021     Document Type: Article

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