All Outputs (8)

Making Silicone Rubber Highly Resistant to Bacterial Attachment Using Thiol-ene Grafting (2016)
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Magennis, E. P., Hook, A. L., Williams, P., & Alexander, M. R. (2016). Making Silicone Rubber Highly Resistant to Bacterial Attachment Using Thiol-ene Grafting. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8(45), 30780-30787. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b10986

Biomedical devices are indispensable in modern medicine yet offer surfaces that promote bacterial attachment and biofilm formation, resulting in acute and chronic healthcare-associated infections. We have developed a simple method to graft acrylates... Read More about Making Silicone Rubber Highly Resistant to Bacterial Attachment Using Thiol-ene Grafting.

Application of Targeted Molecular and Material Property Optimization to Bacterial Attachment-Resistant (Meth)acrylate Polymers (2016)
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Adlington, K., Nguyen, N. T., Eaves, E., Yang, J., Chang, C. Y., Li, J., …Irvine, D. J. (2016). Application of Targeted Molecular and Material Property Optimization to Bacterial Attachment-Resistant (Meth)acrylate Polymers. Biomacromolecules, 17(9), 2830-2838. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.6b00615

© 2016 American Chemical Society. Developing medical devices that resist bacterial attachment and subsequent biofilm formation is highly desirable. In this paper, we report the optimization of the molecular structure and thus material properties of a... Read More about Application of Targeted Molecular and Material Property Optimization to Bacterial Attachment-Resistant (Meth)acrylate Polymers.

Development, printability and post-curing studies of formulations of materials resistant to microbial attachment for use in inkjet based 3D printing (2016)
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Begines, B., Hook, A. L., Alexander, M. R., Tuck, C. J., & Wildman, R. D. (2016). Development, printability and post-curing studies of formulations of materials resistant to microbial attachment for use in inkjet based 3D printing. Rapid Prototyping Journal, 22(5), 835-841. https://doi.org/10.1108/RPJ-11-2015-0175

Purpose: This paper aims to print 3D structures from polymers that resist bacterial attachment by reactive jetting of acrylate monomers. Design/methodology/approach: The first step towards printing was ink development. Inks were characterised to car... Read More about Development, printability and post-curing studies of formulations of materials resistant to microbial attachment for use in inkjet based 3D printing.

Identification of polymer surface adsorbed proteins implicated in pluripotent human embryonic stem cell expansion (2016)
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Hammad, M., Rao, W., Smith, J. G. W., Anderson, D. G., Langer, R., Young, L. E., …Alexander, M. R. (2016). Identification of polymer surface adsorbed proteins implicated in pluripotent human embryonic stem cell expansion. Biomaterials Science, 4(9), 1381-1391. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6bm00214e

Improved biomaterials are required for application in regenerative medicine, biosensing, and as medical devices. The response of cells to the chemistry of polymers cultured in media is generally regarded as being dominated by proteins adsorbed to the... Read More about Identification of polymer surface adsorbed proteins implicated in pluripotent human embryonic stem cell expansion.

The impact of surface chemistry modification on macrophage polarisation (2016)
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Rostam, H., Singh, S., Salazar, F., Magennis, P., Hook, A. L., Singh, T., …Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2016). The impact of surface chemistry modification on macrophage polarisation. Immunobiology, 221(11), 1237-1246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imbio.2016.06.010

Macrophages are innate immune cells that have a central role in combating infection and maintaining tissue homeostasis. They exhibit remarkable plasticity in response to environmental cues. At either end of a broad activation spectrum are pro-inflamm... Read More about The impact of surface chemistry modification on macrophage polarisation.

The influence of nanotexturing of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) films upon human ovarian cancer cell attachment (2016)
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Ya?ayan, G., Xue, X., Collier, P., Clarke, P., Alexander, M. R., & Marlow, M. (2016). The influence of nanotexturing of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) films upon human ovarian cancer cell attachment. Nanotechnology, 27(25), https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/27/25/255102

In this study, we have produced nanotextured poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) films by using polystyrene (PS) particles as a template to make a polydimethylsiloxane mould against which PLGA is solvent cast. Biocompatible, biodegradable and nanote... Read More about The influence of nanotexturing of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) films upon human ovarian cancer cell attachment.

Imaging of Crystalline and Amorphous Surface Regions Using Time-of-Flight Secondary-Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS): Application to Pharmaceutical Materials (2016)
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Iuraş, A., Scurr, D. J., Boissier, C., Nicholas, M. L., Roberts, C. J., & Alexander, M. R. (2016). Imaging of Crystalline and Amorphous Surface Regions Using Time-of-Flight Secondary-Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS): Application to Pharmaceutical Materials. Analytical Chemistry, 88(7), 3481-3487. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02621

The structure of a material, in particular the extremes of crystalline and amorphous forms, significantly impacts material performance in numerous sectors such as semiconductors, energy storage, and pharmaceutical products, which are investigated in... Read More about Imaging of Crystalline and Amorphous Surface Regions Using Time-of-Flight Secondary-Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS): Application to Pharmaceutical Materials.

High throughput screening for discovery of materials that control stem cell fate (2016)
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Patel, A. K., Tibbitt, M., Celiz, A. D., Davies, M. C., Langer, R., Denning, C., …Anderson, D. G. (2016). High throughput screening for discovery of materials that control stem cell fate. Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 20(4), 202-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cossms.2016.02.002

Insights into the complex stem cell niche have identified the cell–material interface to be a potent regulator of stem cell fate via material properties such as chemistry, topography and stiffness. In light of this, materials scientists have the oppo... Read More about High throughput screening for discovery of materials that control stem cell fate.