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Bioinspired Strategies to Develop Dual-Functional Polymer-Based Antibacterial Coatings for Biomedical Applications
DownloadFall 2024
The main objective of this thesis is to construct bifunctional coatings by combining the functional polymers with tannic acid, dopamine, and dopamine methacrylate via strong covalent bonds to enhance the mechanical stability of the coatings. Hydrophilic polymers and bactericidal agents have been...
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Spring 2011
In this thesis, measurement and analysis of colloidal forces between an atomic force microscope (AFM) probe and a topographically patterned substrate are reported. The energy between the patterned substrate and a smooth flat plate was characterized mathematically using Surface Element Integration...