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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Cambridge
Antibacterial nanoparticle monolayers prepared on chemically inert surfaces by cooperative electrostatic adsorption (CELA)
This efficient, one-step solution-dip method for creating antibacterial surfaces led to a patent filing [US 20090098366, 16 April 2009], since it is compatible with closed surfaces, such as catheters, and wastes very little material. This widely cited article is an applied extension of Smoukov’s seminal work on the discovery of the novel cooperative electrostatic assembly mechanism, which could coat most polymer and oxide surfaces with a dense monolayer of nanoparticles [JACS 129(2007)15623-15630]. The concept builds on the unexpected behaviour Smoukov reported for charged nanoparticles as “nanoions” [Science 312(2006)420-424; NanoLett 6(2006)1896].
