Harrick Plasma : References : Articles, Patents and Dissertations

Category: Surface Modification

Surfaces may be modified through plasma treatment for a variety of materials requirements. These may include enhancement of surface adhesion, surface functionalization with specific molecular end groups, cleaning and sterilization, surface oxidation, or plasma polymerization. The following papers discuss work that utilize Harrick Plasma equipment to study the surface activation and modification of various inorganic and organic materials.

Articles

Li, H., C. S. Ha, I. Kim. "Fabrication of hollow and mesoporous germania microspheres by templating against plasma-treated polystyrene microspheres." J. Sol-Gel Sci. Technol. (2010) 53(2): 232--238.
Li, Y. T., H. H. Chen, B. H. Babu, Y. Y. Hsieh, S. H. Shu. "5-(Perfluorooctylthio)acetamidofluorescein (5-FOAF) as a convenient tag for inspecting the surface coverage of fluorinated coatings." Appl. Surf. Sci. (2010) 256(22): 6908--6913.
Pittman, J. J., V. Klep, I. Luzinov, R. K. Marcus. "Extraction of metals from aqueous systems employing capillary-channeled polymer (C-CP) fibers modified with poly (acrylic acid)(PAA)." Analytical Methods (2010) 2(5): 461--469.
Popa, I and Papastavrou, G and Borkovec, M. "Effective Charge of Adsorbed Poly (amido amine) Dendrimers: Transition from Heterogeneous to Homogeneous Charge Distribution." Macromolecules (2010) 43(2): 1129--1136.
Rim, Y.S. and Kim, H.J. and Kim, K.H.. "Characteristics of indium zinc oxide films deposited using the facing targets sputtering method for OLEDs applications." Thin Solid Films (2010) In Press: .
Saxer, S. U. Pieles, M. Elsener, M. Horisberger, S. Tosatti, M. Textor, K. Gademann, S. Zürcher. "Design of a high-throughput device for screening surface modification protocols." Prog. Org. Coat. (2010) 67(1): 20--27.
Seifert, Michael and Rinke, Matthias T. and Galla, Hans-Joachim. "Characterization of Streptavidin Binding to Biotinylated, Binary Self-Assembled Thiol Monolayers' Influence of Component Ratio and Solvent." Langmuir (2010) 26(9): 2010.
Tian, Y., B. R. Shumway, D. R. Meldrum. "A New Cross-Linkable Oxygen Sensor Covalently Bonded into Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-co-Polyacrylamide Thin Film for Dissolved Oxygen Sensing." Chem. Mater. (2010) 22(6): 2069--2078.
Wang, J., Z. Lin. "Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Nanotube Solar Cells with Markedly Enhanced Performance via Rational Surface Engineering." Chem. Mater. (2010) 22(2): 579--584.
Aulin, C., S. H. Yun, L. Wågberg, T. Lindstrom. "Design of Highly Oleophobic Cellulose Surfaces from Structured Silicon Templates." ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2009) 1(11): 2443--2452.
Bellin, R. M., J. D. Kubicek,M. J. Frigault, A. J. Kamien, R. L. Steward, H. M. Barnes, M. B. DiGiacomo, L. J. Duncan, C. K. Edgerly, E. M. Morse. "Defining the role of syndecan-4 in mechanotransduction using surface-modification approaches." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. (2009) 106: 22102.
Hsiao, Y. S., C. P. Chen, C. H. Chao, W. T. Whang. "All-solution-processed inverted polymer solar cells on granular surface-nickelized polyimide." Org. Electron. (2009) 10(4): 551--561.
Li, H and Ha, CS and Kim, I. "Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube/SiO 2 and Carbon Nanotube/SiO 2/Ag Nanoparticles Hybrids by Using Plasma Treatment." Nanoscale Research Letters (2009) 4(11): 1384--1388.
Sisson, K., C. Zhang, M. C. Farach-Carson, D. B. Chase, J. F. Rabolt. "Evaluation of Cross-Linking Methods for Electrospun Gelatin on Cell Growth and Viability." Biomacromolecules (2009) 10(7): 1675--1680.
Trimbach, D. C., D. Spitkovsky, B. Garipcan, S. Zankovych, C. Böttinger, Y. Duan, J. Hescheler, K. D. Jandt. "A Method for the Real-Time Observation of Endodermal Cell Behavior on Micropatterned Surfaces." Adv. Eng. Mat. (2009) 11: B106-B113.
Zhou, X. G. Lu, X. Qi, S. Wu, H. Li, F. Boey, H. Zhang, Hua. "A Method for Fabrication of Graphene Oxide Nanoribbons from Graphene Oxide Wrinkles." J. Phys. Chem. C (2009) 113(44): 19119--19122.
Awaja, F.. "Quantification of polypropylene surface chemical groups using principal components regression and ToF-SIMS and XPS data." J. Phys: Conf. Ser. (2008) 100: 012026.
Cho, W. K., I. S. Choi. "Fabrication of Hairy Polymeric Films Inspired by Geckos: Wetting and High Adhesion Properties." Adv. Funct. Mater. (2008) 18(7): 1089--1096.
Fabretto, M. and Vaithianathan, T. and Hall, C. and Mazurkiewicz, J. and Innis, P. C. and Wallace, G. G. and Murphy, P.. "Faradaic charge corrected colouration efficiency measurements for electrochromic devices." Electrochim. Acta (2008) 53(5): 2250-2257.
Hassler, B. L., T. J. Amundsen, J. G. Zeikus, I. Lee, R. M. Worden. "Versatile bioelectronic interfaces on flexible non-conductive substrates." Biosens. Bioelectron. (2008) 23(10): 1481-1487.
Kim, Y. G., H. Christian-Pandya, N. Ananthakrishnan, Z. I. Niazimbetova, B. C. Thompson, M. E. Galvin, J. R. Reynolds. "P-OXA-X: A new Oligo photosensitizer for organic solar cells." Sol. Energ. Mat. Sol. C. (2008) 92(3): 307-312.
Lee, H., G. Zhang, J. Cho. "Inorganic-Organic Barrier Coatings for Flexible OLED Applications." Flexible Electronics and Displays Conference and Exhibition (2008) : 1-7.
Lee, J. H., J. W. Yoon, I. G. Kim, J. S. Oh, H. J. Nam, D. Y. Jung. "Fabrication of polydimethylsiloxane shadow masks for chemical solution deposition of CdS thin-film transistors." Thin Solid Films (2008) 18: 6492-6498.
Lim, J. Y., M. C. Shaughnessy, Z. Y. Zhou, H. Noh, E. A. Vogler, H. J. Donahue. "Surface energy effects on osteoblast spatial growth and mineralization." Biomaterials (2008) 29: 1776-1784.
Liu, C., E. Bonaccurso, H. J. Butt. "Evaporation of sessile water/ethanol drops in a controlled environment." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2008) 10(47): 7150--7157.
Maillard, D., R. E. Prud'homme. "The crystallization of ultrathin films of polylactides - Morphologies and transitions." Can. J. Chem. (2008) 86(6): 556-563.
Mo, X. Q., Y. Hiromasa, M. Warner, A. N. Al-Rawi, T. Wamoto, T. S. Rahman, X. Z. Sun, J. M. Tomich. "Design of 11-residue peptides with unusual biophysical properties: Induced secondary structure in the absence of water." Biophys. J. (2008) 94: 1807-1817.
Ngai, T., X. Xing, F. Jin. "Depletion Attraction between a Polystyrene Particle and a Hydrophilic Surface in a Pluronic Aqueous Solution." Langmuir (2008) 24(24): 13912--13917.
Rumsey, J. W., M. Das, J. F. Kang, R. Wagner, P. Molnar, J. J. Hickman. "Tissue engineering intrafusal fibers: Dose- and time-dependent differentiation of nuclear bag fibers in a defined in vitro system using neuregulin 1-beta-1." Biomaterials (2008) 29(8): 994-1004.
Saleem, M., M. C. Meyer, D. Breitenstein, H. J. Galla. "The surfactant peptide KL4 in lipid monolayers - Phase behavior, topography, and chemical distribution." J. Biol. Chem. (2008) 283(8): 5195-5207.
Werner, O., L. Persson, M. Nolte, A. Fery, L. Wagberg. "Patterning of surfaces with nanosized cellulosic fibrils using microcontact printing and a lift-off technique." Soft Matter (2008) 4(6): 1158-1160.
Wood, K. C., N. S. Zacharia, D. J. Schmidt, S. N. Wrightman, B. J. Andaya, P. T. Hammond. "Electroactive controlled release thin films." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. (2008) 105(7): 2280-2285.
Burtovyy, O., V. Klep, H. Chen, R. Hu, C. Lin, I. Luzinov. "Hydrophobic modification of polymer surfaces via "grafting to" approach." J. Macromol. Sci., Part B: Phys. (2007) 46 B: 137-154.
Christian, P. J. A. Kenis. "Fabrication of ceramic microscale structures." J. Am. Ceram. Soc. (2007) 90(9): 2779-2783.
Engqvist, C., S. Forsberg, M. Norgren, H. Edlund, B. Andreasson, O. Karlsson. "Interactions between single latex particles and silica surfaces studied with AFM." Colloids Surf., A (2007) 302(1-3): 197-203.
Eriksson, M., S. M. Notley, R. Pelton, L. Wagberg. "The role of polymer compatibility in the adhesion between surfaces saturated with modified dextrans." J. Colloid Interface Sci. (2007) 310: 312-320.
Fabretto, M., T. Vaithianathan, C. Hall, P. Murphy, P. C. Innis, J. Mazurkiewicz, G. G. Wallace. "Colouration efficiency measurements in electrochromic polymers: The importance of charge density." Electrochem. Commun. (2007) 9(8): 2032-2036.
Foose, L. L., H. W. Blanch, C. J. Radke. "Immobilized protein films for assessing surface proteolysis kinetics." J. Biotechnol. (2007) 132(1): 32-37.
Guo, F. Q., K. Ogawa, Y. G. Kim, E. O. Danilov, F. N. Castellano, J. R. Reynolds, K.S. and Schanze. "A fulleropyrrolidine end-capped platinum-acetylide triad: the mechanism of photoinduced charge transfer in organometallic photovoltaic cells." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2007) 9(21): 2724-2734.
Hendricks, T. R., I. Lee. "Wrinkle-free nanomechanical film: Control and prevention of polymer film buckling." Nano Lett. (2007) 7(2): 372-379.
Holmes, D. P., A. J. Crosby. "Snapping surfaces." Adv. Mater. (2007) 19(21): 3589-3593.
Kim, Y. G., E. M. Galand, B. C. Thompson, J. Walker, S. A. Fossey, T. D. McCarley, K. A. Abboud, J. R. Reynolds. "Isoregic thienylene-phenylene polymers: The effects of structural variation and application to photovoltaic devices." J. Macromol. Sci. Part A Pure Appl. Chem. (2007) 44: 665-674.
Kunzler, T. P., C. Huwiler, T. Drobek, J. Voros, N. D. Spencer. "Systematic study of osteoblast response to nanotopography by means of nanoparticle-density gradients." Biomaterials (2007) 28: 5000-5006.
Lee, S., R. Heeb, N. V. Venkataraman, N. D. Spencer. "Macroscopic tribological testing of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs): Pin-on-disk tribometry with elastomeric sliding contacts." Tribol. Lett. (2007) 28: 229-239.
Lew, C., F. Chowdhury, M. W. Hosur, A. N. Netravali. "The effect of silica (SiO2) nanoparticles and ammonia/ethylene plasma treatment on the interfacial and mechanical properties of carbon-fiber-reinforced epoxy composites." J. Adhes. Sci. Technol. (2007) 21: 1407-1424.
Loesberg, W. A., J. te Riet, F. C. M. J. M. van Delft, P. Schon, C. G. Figdor, S. Speller, J. J. W. A. van Loon, X. F. Walboomers, J. A. Jansen. "The threshold at which substrate nanogroove dimensions may influence fibroblast alignment and adhesion." Biomaterials (2007) 28: 3944-3951.
Mark, S. S., M. Bergkvist, P. Bhatnagar, C. Welch, A. L. Goodyear, X. Yang, E. R. Angert, C. A. Batt. "Thin film processing using S-layer proteins: Biotemplated assembly of colloidal gold etch masks for fabrication of silicon nanopillar arrays." Colloids Surf., B (2007) 57(2): 161-173.
Sivagnanam, V., A. Sayah, C. Vandevyver, M. A. M. Gijs. "Micropatterning of protein-functionalized magnetic beads on glass using electrostatic self-assembly." Sens. Actuators, B (2007) 132(16): 361-367.
Vaccaro, M., C. von Corswant, O. Soderman. "Investigation of the adsorption of PEG1500-12-acyloxystearate surfactants onto phospholipid bilayers: An ellipsometry and Cryo-TEM study." Biophys. J. (2007) 93(12): 4300-4306.
Zhang, X. Y., B. Kong, O. K. C. Tsui, X. Yang, Y. Mi, C. M. Chan, B. Xu. "Effect of pattern topology on the self-cleaning properties of textured surfaces." J. Chem. Phys. (2007) 127(1): 014703.
Cattaneo, S., K. Miettinen, E. Vuorimaa, H. Lemmetyinen, M. Kauranen. "Linear optics in the second-order characterization of thin films." Chem. Phys. Lett. (2006) 419(4-6): 492-495.
Christian, M. Mitchell, D. P. Kim, P. J. A. Kenis. "Ceramic microreactors for on-site hydrogen production." J. Catal. (2006) 241(2): 235-242.
Fan, X. W., L. J. Lin, P. B. Messersmith. "Cell fouling resistance of polymer brushes grafted from Ti substrates by surface-initiated polymerization: Effect of ethylene glycol side chain length." Biomacromolecules (2006) 7(8): 2443-2448.
Fu, Yi, Fangmao Ye, William G. Sanders, Maryanne M. Collinson, Daniel A. Higgins. "Single Molecule Spectroscopy Studies of Diffusion in Mesoporous Silica Thin Films." J. Phys. Chem. B (2006) 110: 9164-9170.
Guo, Z., K. M. Bussard, K. Chatterjee, R. Miller, E. A. Vogler, C. A. Siedlecki. "Mathematical modeling of material-induced blood plasma coagulation." Biomaterials (2006) 27(5): 796-806.
Hassler, B. L., R. M. Worden. "Versatile bioelectronic interfaces based on heterotrifunctional linking molecules." Biosens. Bioelectron. (2006) 21(11): 2146-2154.
Hong, K. S., J. Wang, A. Sharonov, D. Chandra, J. Aizenberg, S. Yang. "Tunable microfluidic optical devices with an integrated microlens array." J. Micromech. Microeng. (2006) 16(8): 1660-1666.
Kumar, N., C. Maldarelli, A. Couzis. "An infrared spectroscopy study of the hydrogen bonding and water restructuring as a trisiloxane superspreading surfactant adsorbs onto an aqueous-hydrophobic surface." Colloids Surf., A (2006) 277(1-3): 98-106.
Lambie, Bradley A., Owe Orwar, Stephen G. Weber. "Controlling the Electrochemically Active Area of Carbon Fiber Microelectrodes by the Electrodeposition and Selective Removal of an Insulating Photoresist." Anal. Chem. (2006) 78: 5165-5171.
Mahapatro, Anil, David M. Johnson, Devang N. Patel, Marc D. Feldman, Arturo A. Ayon, C. Mauli Agrawal. "Surface Modification of Functional Self-Assembled Monolayers on 316L Stainless Steel Via Lipase Catalysis." Langmuir (2006) 22: 901-905.
McIntire, Theresa M., S. Rachelle Smalley, John T. Newberg, A. Scott Lea, John C. Hemminger, Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts. "Substrate Changes Associated with the Chemistry of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Silicon." Langmuir (2006) 22(13): 5617-5624.
Morgenthaler, S., C. Zink, B. Städler, J. Vörös, S. Lee, N. D. Spencer, S. G. P. Tosatti. "Poly (L-lysine)-grafted-poly (ethylene glycol)-based surface-chemical gradients. Preparation, characterization, and first applications." Biointerphases (2006) 1: 156-165.
Morgenthaler, Sara M., Seunghwan Lee, Nicholas D. Spencer. "Submicrometer Structure of Surface-Chemical Gradients Prepared by a Two-Step Immersion Method." Langmuir (2006) 22: 2706-2711.
Pallandre, A., D. Pal, B. de Lambert, J. L. Viovy, C. Futterer. "New 'monolithic' templates and improved protocols for soft lithography and microchip fabrication." J. Phys.: Condens. Matter (2006) 18(18): S665-S676.
Park, S., Y. S. Chi, I. S. Choi. "Immobilization of Ti((OPr)-Pr-i)(4) onto silicon oxide surfaces and surface-initiated polymerization of epsilon-caprolactone." J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. (2006) 44(11): 3711-3716.
Perez, J. B., J. M. Segura, D. Abankwa, J. Piguet, K. L. Martinez, H. Vogel. "Monitoring the diffusion of single heterotrimeric G proteins in supported cell-membrane sheets reveals their partitioning into microdomains." J. Mol. Biol. (2006) 363(5): 918-930.
Pergolese, Barbara, Maurizio Muniz-Miranda, Adriano Bigotto. "Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Investigation of the Adsorption of 2-Mercaptobenzoxazole on Smooth Copper Surfaces Doped with Silver Colloidal Nanoparticles." J. Phys. Chem. B (2006) 110: 9241-9245.
Steiner, Gerald, Cordelia Zimmerer, Reiner Salzer. "Characterization of Metal-Supported Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Microstructures by FTIR Imaging Spectroscopy." Langmuir (2006) 22: 4125-4130.
Tang, C. S., M. Dusseiller, S. Makohliso, M. Heuschkel, S. Sharma, B. Keller, J. Vörös. "Dynamic, Electronically Switchable Surfaces for Membrane Protein Microarrays." Anal. Chem. (2006) 78: 711-717.
Wei, D., A. Pivrikas, H. Karhu, H. S. Majumdar, T. Lindfors, C. Kvarnstrom, R. Osterbacka, A. Ivaska. "Surface modified high rectification organic diode based on sulfonated poly(aniline)." J. Mater. Chem. (2006) 16(29): 3014-3020.
Xu, F., G. Zhen, M. Textor, W. Knoll. "Surface plasmon optical detection of beta-lactamase binding to different interfacial matrices combined with fiber optic absorbance spectroscopy for enzymatic activity assays." Biointerphases (2006) 1(2): 73-81.
Zhang, Z. Y., P. Boccazzi, H. G. Choi, G. Perozziello, A. J. Sinskey, K. F. Jensen. "Microchemostat - microbial continuous culture in a polymer-based, instrumented microbioreactor." Lab Chip (2006) 6(7): 906-913.
Al-Abadleh, Hind A., Amanda L. Mifflin, Paul A. Bertin, SonBinh T. Nguyen, Franz M. Geiger. "Control of Carboxylic Acid and Ester Groups on Chromium (VI) Binding to Functionalized Silica Water Interfaces Studied by Second Harmonic Generation." J. Phys. Chem. B (2005) 109: 9691-9702.
Bozzi, A., T. Yuranova, I. Guasaquillo, D. Laub, J. Kiwi. "Self-cleaning of modified cotton textiles by TiO2 at low temperatures under daylight irradiation." J. Photochem. Photobiol., A (2005) 174(2): 156-164.
Bozzi, A., T. Yuranova, J. Kiwi. "Self-cleaning of wool-polyamide and polyester textiles by TiO2-rutile modification under daylight irradiation at ambient temperature." J. Photochem. Photobiol., A (2005) 172(1): 27-34.
Brown, D. A., R. E. Beygui, W. R. MacLellan, H. Laks, J. C. Y. Dunn, B. M. Wu. "Modulation of gene expression in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes by surface modification of polylactide-co-glycolide substrates." J. Biomed. Mater. Res. Part A (2005) 74A: 419-429.
Cárdenas, Marité, Tommy Nylander, R. K. Thomas, Björn Lindman. "DNA Compaction onto Hydrophobic Surfaces by Different Cationic Surfactants." Langmuir (2005) 21: 6495-6502.
Chaudhury, Manoj K., John A. Finlay, Jun Young Chung, Maureen E. Callow, James A. Callow. "The Influence of Elastic Modulus and Thickness on the Release of the Soft-Fouling Gree Alga from PDMS Model Networks." Biofouling (2005) 21: 41-48.
Crane, Jonathan M., Volker Kiessling, Lukas K. Tamm. "Measuring Lipid Asymmetry in Planar Supported Bilayers by Fluorescence Interference Contrast Microscopy." Langmuir (2005) 21: 1377-1388.
Dalsin, Jeffrey L., Lijun Lin, Samuele Tosatti, Janos Vörös, Marcus Textor, Phillip B. Messersmith. "Protein Resistance of Titanium Oxide Surfaces Modified by Biologically Inspired mPEG-DOPA." Langmuir (2005) 21: 640-646.
Doherty III, Walter J., Neal R. Armstrong, S. Scott Saavedra. "Conducting Polymer Growth in Porous Sol-Gel Thin Films Fromation of Nanoelectrode Arrays and Mediated Electron Transfer to Sequestered Macromolecules." Chem. Mater. (2005) 17: 3652-3660.
Elliott, C. Michael, Stefano Caramori, Carlo A. Bignozzi. "Indium Tin Oxide Electrodes Modified With Tris(2,2'-bipyridine-4,4'-dicarboxylic acid) Iron(II) and the Catalytic Oxidation of Tris(4,4'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-bipyridine) Cobalt(II)." Langmuir (2005) 21: 3022-3027.
Eriksson, M., S. M. Notley, L. Wagberg. "The influence on paper strength properties when building multilayers of weak polyelectrolytes onto wood fibres." J. Colloid Interface Sci. (2005) 292(1): 38-45.
Lee, Seunghwan, Janos Vörös. "An Aqueous-Based Surface Modification of PDMS with PEG to Prevent Biofouling." Langmuir (2005) 21: 11957-11962.
Ludwigs, S., K. Schmidt, C. M. Stafford, E.J. Amis, M.J. Fasolka, A. Karim, R. Magerle, G. Krausch. "Combinatorial Mapping of the Phase Behavior of ABC Triblock Terpolymers in Thin Films." Macromolecules (2005) 38: 1850-1858.
Muller, Markus T., Xiaoping Yan, Seunghwan Lee, Scott S. Perry, Nicholas D. Spencer. "Preferential Solvation and Its Effect on the Lubrication Properties of a Surface-Bound, Brushlike Copolymer." Macromolecules (2005) 38: 3861-3866.
Nolte, M., B. Schoeler, C. S. Peyratout, D. G. Kurth, A. Fery. "Filled microcavity arrays produced by polyelectrolyte multilayer membrane transfer." Adv. Mater. (2005) 17(13): 1665-1669.
Runge, Anne F., Nicole C. Rasmussen, S. Scott Saavedra, Sergio B. Mendes. "Determination of Anisotropic Optical Constants and Surface Coverage of Molecular Films Using Polarized Visible ATR Spectroscopy, Application to Adsorbed Cytochrome C Films." J. Phys. Chem. B (2005) 109: 424-431.
Sun, Qiao-Yu, Louis C.P.M. de Smet, Barend van Lagen, Marcel Giesbers, Peter C. Thüne, Johan van Engelenburg, Frits A. de Wolf, Han Zuilhof, Ernst J. R. Sudhölter. "Covalently Attached Monolayers on Crystalline H-Terminated Si." J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2005) 127(8): 2514-2523.
Vanzi, F., Y. Takagi, H. Shuman, B. S. Cooperman, Y. E. Goldman. "Mechanical studies of single ribosome/mRNA complexes." Biophys. J. (2005) 89(3): 1909-1919.
Vuorinen, Tommi, Kimmo Kaunisto, Nikolai V. Tkachenko, Alexander Efimov, Helge Lemmetyinen. "Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers of Porphyrin-Fullerene Dyads." Langmuir (2005) 21: 5383-5390.
Wang, Bin, Richard D. Oleschuk, J. Hugh Horton. "Chemical Force Titrations of Amine- and Sulfonic Acid PDMS." Langmuir (2005) 21: 1290-1298.
Wirasate, S., F. J. Boerio. "Effect of adhesion, film thickness, and substrate hardness on the scratch behavior of poly(carbonate) films." J. Adhes. (2005) 81(5): 509-528.
Ye, Hongke, Zhiyong Gu, David H. Gracias. "Kinetics of Ultraviolet and Plasma Surface Modification of Poly(Dimethylsiloxane) Probed by Sum Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy." Langmuir (2005) 22: 1863-1868.
Zhang, Zhanping, Raphael Yoo, Matthew Wells, Thomas P. Beebe Jr., Roy Biran, Patrick Tresco. "Neurite Outgrowth on Well-Characterized Surfaces: Preparation and Characterization of Chemically and Spatially Controlled Fibronectin and RGD Substrates with Good Bioactivity." Biomaterials (2005) 26: 47-61.
Bergkvist, Magnus, Sonny S. Mark, Xin Yang, Esther R. Angert, Carl A. Batt. "Bionanofabrication of Ordered Nanoparticle Arrays: Effect of Particle Properties and Adsorption Conditions." J. Phys. Chem. B (2004) 108: 8241-8248.
Biddiss, Elaine, David Erickson, Dongqing Li. "Heterogeneous Surface Charge Enhanced Micromixing for Electrokinetic Flows." Anal. Chem. (2004) 76: 3208-3213.
Blank, K., A. Lankenau, T. Mai, S. Schiffmann, I. Gilbert, S. Hirler, C. Albrecht, M. Benoit, H. E. Gaub, H. Clausen-Schaumann. "Double-chip protein arrays: force-based multiplex sandwich immunoassays with increased specificity." Anal. Bioanal. Chem. (2004) 379: 974-981.
Bruckmann, Corinna, X. Frank Walboomers, Kenichi Matsuzaka, John A. Jansen. "Periodontal Ligament and Gingival Fibroblast Adhesion to Dentin-Like Textured Surfaces." Biomaterials (2004) 26(3): 339-346.
Chakrapani, Nirupama, Bingqing Wei, Alvaro Carrillo, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Ravi S. Kane. "Capillarity-Driven Assembly of Two-Dimensional Cellular Carbon Nanotube Foams." Proc. Natl. Ac. Sci. (2004) 101(12): 4009-4012.
Das, M., P. Molnar, C. Gregory, L. Riedel, A. Jamshidi, J. J. Hickman. "Long-term culture of embryonic rat cardiomyocytes on an organosilane surface in a serum-free medium." Biomaterials (2004) 25: 5643-5647.
Erickson, David, David Sinton, Dongqing Li. "A Miniaturized High-Voltage Integrated Power Supply for Portable Microfluidic Applications." Lab on a Chip (2004) 4: 87-90.
Falconnet, D., A. Koenig, T. Assi, M. Textor. "A combined photolithographic and molecular-assembly approach to produce functional micropatterns for applications in the biosciences." Adv. Funct. Mater. (2004) 14(8): 749-756.
Hussain, Mohammad A., Christopher A. Siedlecki. "The Platelet Integrin Alpha(Iib) Beta(3) Imaged by Atomic Force Microscopy on Model Surfaces." Micron (2004) 35(7): 565-573.
Ivanov, Dimitri, Nicolas Dubreuil, Vincent Raussens, Jean-Marie Ruysschaert, Erik Goormaghtigh. "Evaluation of the Ordering of Membranes in Multilayer Stacks Built on an ATR-FTIR Germanium Crystal with Atomic Force Microscopy: the Case of the H+,K+-Atpase-Containing Gastric Tubulovesicle Membranes." Biophys. J. (2004) 87: 1307-1315.
Janorkar, A. V., A. T. Metters, D. E. Hirt. "Modification of poly(lactic acid) films: Enhanced wettability from surface-confined photografting and increased degradation rate due to an artifact of the photografting process." Macromolecules (2004) 379: 9151-9159.
Kapilashrami, Abha, Krister Eskilsson, Lennart Bergström, Martin Malmsten. "Drying of Oil-In-Water Emulsions on Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Substrates." Colloids Surf. A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects (2004) 233: 155-161.
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Reiter, Gerald, Norbert Hassler, Viktoria Weber, Dieter Falkenhagen, Urs Peter Fringeli. "In Situ FTIR ATR Spectroscopic Study of the Interaction of Immobilized Human Tumor Necrosis Factor-A with a Monoclonal Antibody in Aqueous Environment." Biochim. Biophysica Acta (2004) 1699: 253-261.
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Patents

Iyer, S., O. S. Benz, T. P. Klun, W. W. Fan. "Michael-adduct fluorochemical silanes." Patent US 7335786. Feb. 26, 2008 (published).
Marks, T. J., M. R. Wasielewski, A. Facchetti, B. A. Jones. "Naphthalene-based semiconductor materials and methosds of preparing and use thereof." Patent US 20080021220 A1. Jan. 24, 2008 (published).
Roitman, D. and Peluso, P. and Foquet, M.. "Reactive surfaces, substrates and methods of producing same." Patent US 20070077564 A1. Apr. 05, 2007 (published).
Lu, D. D., M. J. Pellerite,R. M. Flynn. "Phototool coating." Patent US 7189479. Mar. 13, 2007 (published).
Textor, M., S. Zurcher, K. Gademann, S. Tosatti. "Catechol Functionalized Polymers and Method for Preparing Them." Patent WO 2007022645. Mar. 01, 2007 (published).
Wood, K. C., H. F. Chuang, R. D. Batten, D. M. Lynn, P. T. Hammond Cunningham. "Methods of Making Decomposable Thin Films of Polyelectrolytes and Uses Thereof." Patent US 20070020469 A1. Jan. 25, 2007 (published).
Messersmith, P. B., A. Barron, A. Statz, R. Meagher. "Peptidomimetic polymers for antifouling surfaces." Patent US 20060241281 A1. Oct. 26, 2006 (published).
Zuilhof, Johannes Teunis, Catharina Gerarda Petronella Henrica Schröen, Ahmed Arafat Mohamed Khamis. "Tailor-Made Functionalized Silicon And/Or Germanium Surfaces." Patent WO2005123273 A1. Dec. 29, 2005 (published).
Invie, Judith M.. "Antisoiling Coatings for Antireflective Surfaces and Methods of Preparation." Patent EP1051448 B1. Dec. 14, 2005 (published).
Pellerite, Mark J., Steven J. Martin, Rudolf J. Dams. "Method of Coating a Substrate with a Fluoropolymer." Patent US20050136180 A1. June 23, 2005 (published).
Martin, Steven J., Mark J. Pellerite. "Removal and Replacement of Antisoiling Coatings." Patent WO2005006028 A1. Jan. 20, 2005 (published).
Spencer, Nicholas D., Sara Maria Morgenthaler, Seunghwan Lee. "Controlled Surface Chemical-Gradients." Patent WO2005002743 A1. Jan. 13, 2005 (published).
Abbott, S.J., J. Ralston, G. D. Reynolds, R. A. Hayes. "Photoresponsive surfaces." Patent US 6800370. Oct. 05, 2004 (published).
Montemagno, Carlo D., Elsa I. Chang. "Microfluidic Affinity System Using PDMS and a Surface Modification Process." Patent US20040110199 A1. June 10, 2004 (published).
Hofer, Rolf, Michael Pawlak, Marcus Textor, Eveline Schurmann-Mader, Markus Ehrat, Samuele Tosatti. "Method for Precipitating Mono and Multiple Layers of Organophosphoric and Organophosphonic Acids and the Salts Thereof in Addition to Use Thereof." Patent US20030186914 A1. Oct. 02, 2003 (published).
Polizzotti, Richard S., Mohsen Yeganeh, Shawn M. Dougal. "Water Vapor Plasma Treatment of Glass Surfaces." Patent US006106653. Aug. 22, 2000 (granted).
Hidber, Pirmin Helbig, Wolfgang Helbig, Enoch Kim, George M. Whitesides. "Microcontact Printing of Catalytic Colloids." Patent US6060121. May 09, 2000 (granted).
Li, Victor C., Hwai-Chung Wu. "Control of Interface Properties Between Fiber/Cementitous Material Using Plasma Treatment." Patent US005788760. Aug. 04, 1998 (granted).
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Dissertations

Kunzler, T.P.. "Surface Morphology Gradients." Ph.D. diss., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, 2007.
Muller, M.T.. "Aqueous Lubrication by Means of Surface-Bound Brush-Like Copolymers." Ph.D. diss., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, 2005.

Master’s Theses

Weitzel, Corey R.. "Investigation into Water-Soluble Perylene Diimides for Thin Film Formation." Master’s Thesis, Kansas State University, 2008.