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Bacterial Attachment to Polymeric Materials Correlates with Molecular Flexibility and Hydrophilicity (2014)
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Sanni, O., Chang, C., Anderson, D. G., Langer, R., Davies, M. C., Williams, P. M., …Hook, A. L. (2015). Bacterial Attachment to Polymeric Materials Correlates with Molecular Flexibility and Hydrophilicity. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 4(5), 695-701. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201400648

A new class of material resistant to bacterial attachment has been discovered that is formed from polyacrylates with hydrocarbon pendant groups. In this study, the relationship between the nature of the hydrocarbon moiety and resistance to bacteria i... Read More about Bacterial Attachment to Polymeric Materials Correlates with Molecular Flexibility and Hydrophilicity.

Rapid Detection of Peptide Markers for Authentication Purposes in Raw and Cooked Meat Using Ambient Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis Mass Spectrometry (2014)
Journal Article
Montowska, M., Alexander, M. R., Tucker, G. A., & Barrett, D. A. (2014). Rapid Detection of Peptide Markers for Authentication Purposes in Raw and Cooked Meat Using Ambient Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis Mass Spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry, 86(20), 10257-10265. https://doi.org/10.1021/ac502449w

In this paper, our previously developed ambient LESA-MS methodology is implemented to analyze five types of thermally treated meat species, namely beef, pork, horse, chicken, and turkey meat, in order to select and identify heat-stable and species-sp... Read More about Rapid Detection of Peptide Markers for Authentication Purposes in Raw and Cooked Meat Using Ambient Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis Mass Spectrometry.

High throughput screening for biomaterials discovery (2014)
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Algahtani, M. S., Alexander, M., Scurr, D. J., Hook, A. L., Anderson, D. G., Langer, R. S., …Davies, M. C. (2014). High throughput screening for biomaterials discovery. Journal of Controlled Release, 190, 115-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2014.06.045

Using microarray technologies thousands of biomedical materials can be screened in a rapid, parallel and cost effective fashion to identify the optimum candidate that fulfils a specific biomedical application. High throughput surface characterization... Read More about High throughput screening for biomaterials discovery.

Materials for stem cell factories of the future (2014)
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Celiz, A. D., Smith, J. G., Langer, R., Anderson, D. G., Barrett, D. A., Winkler, D. A., …Alexander, M. R. (2014). Materials for stem cell factories of the future. Nature Materials, 13(6), 570-579. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3972

The materials community is now identifying polymeric substrates that could permit translation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) from lab-based research to industrial scale biomedicine. Well defined materials are required to allow cell banking a... Read More about Materials for stem cell factories of the future.

Tryptic Digestion Coupled with Ambient Desorption Electrospray Ionization and Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis Mass Spectrometry Enabling Identification of Skeletal Muscle Proteins in Mixtures and Distinguishing between Beef, Pork, Horse, Chicken, and Turkey Meat (2014)
Journal Article
Montowska, M., Rao, W., Alexander, M. R., Tucker, G. A., & Barrett, D. A. (2014). Tryptic Digestion Coupled with Ambient Desorption Electrospray Ionization and Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis Mass Spectrometry Enabling Identification of Skeletal Muscle Proteins in Mixtures and Distinguishing between Beef, Pork, Horse, Chicken, and Turkey Meat. Analytical Chemistry, 86(9), 4479-4487. https://doi.org/10.1021/ac5003432

The use of ambient desorption electrospray ionization (DESI-MS) mass spectrometry and liquid extraction surface analysis mass spectrometry (LESA-MS) is explored for the first time to analyse skeletal muscle proteins obtained from mixture of standard... Read More about Tryptic Digestion Coupled with Ambient Desorption Electrospray Ionization and Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis Mass Spectrometry Enabling Identification of Skeletal Muscle Proteins in Mixtures and Distinguishing between Beef, Pork, Horse, Chicken, and Turkey Meat.

Thermally Switchable Polymers Achieve Controlled Escherichia coli Detachment (2014)
Journal Article
Hook, A. L., Chang, C., Scurr, D. J., Langer, R., Anderson, D. G., Williams, P., …Alexander, M. R. (2014). Thermally Switchable Polymers Achieve Controlled Escherichia coli Detachment. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 3(7), 1020-1025. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201300518

The thermally triggered release of up to 96% of attached uropathogenic E. coli is achieved on two polymers with opposite changes in surface wettability upon reduction in temperature. This demonstrates that the bacterial attachment to a surface cannot... Read More about Thermally Switchable Polymers Achieve Controlled Escherichia coli Detachment.