An electrically reversible switchable surface to control and study early bacterial adhesion dynamics in real-time.

Pranzetti, Alice; Mieszkin, Sophie; Iqbal, Parvez; Rawson, Frankie J; Callow, Maureen E; Callow, James A; Koelsch, Patrick; Preece, Jon A et al. · Adv Mater · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Bacterial adhesion can be controlled by applying electrical potentials to surfaces incorporating well-spaced negatively charged 11-mercaptoundecanoic acids. When combined with electrochemical surface plasmon resonance, these dynamic surfaces become powerful for monitoring and analysing the passage between reversible and non-reversible cell adhesion, opening new opportunities to advance our understanding of cell adhesion processes.

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