Adhesive nanostructures

Compatibilization/nanostructure formation for achieving a finer blend morphology by the reduction of both the interfacial tension and coalescence, and for ensuring an improved phase adhesion/nanostructure between the blend partners. Thus, the incorporation of the dispersed blend phase into the cell walls should be enhanced while the number of possible nucleating sites is simultaneously increased. 

The nanostructured surfaces resemble, at least to a certain degree, the architecture of physiological adhesion substrates, such as extracellular matrix, which is composed from nanoscale proteins, and in the case of bone, also hydroxyapatite and other inorganic nanocrystals [16,17,24-27]. From this point of view, carbon nanoparticles, such as fullerenes, nanotubes and nanodiamonds, may serve as important novel building blocks for creating artificial bioinspired nanostructured surfaces for bone tissue engineering. 

The aim of this section, therefore, is to correlate systematically the compatibilization of PPE/SAN 60/40 blends by SBM triblock terpolymers with the foaming behavior of the resulting blend. The reduction of the blend phase size, the improved phase adhesion, a potentially higher nucleation activity of the nanostructured interfaces, and the possibility to adjust the glass transitional behavior between PPE and SAN, they all promise to enhance the foam processing of PPE/SAN blends. 

Shu, S., Husain, S. and Koros, W.J. (2007) A general strategy for adhesion enhancement in polymeric composites by formation of nanostructured particle surfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111 (2), 652-657. 

In an effort to identify the number of integrins required to trigger the formation of a stable FA, Spatz and co-workers studied a REF cell line on smaller nanostructured micropatterns. These experiments revealed that a minimum of six integrins per adhesive micropatterns were necessary to observe persistent cell adhesion. Adhesive islands with a side length larger than 1 pm induce the formation of FAs rich in paxillin, an integrin adaptor protein associated to actin fibres. These... 

Synthetic two-dimensional (2D) materials with nanometer textured surfaces have been fabricated by sophisticated technologies, like dip-pen printing [36] or e-beam lithography [37], to elucidate the interactions of cells with defined surfaces. Cell-nanostructure interactions were studied from the gene expression level (cell metabolism) up to the level of microscopic cell behavior. Understanding of the influences of nanostructure on cell adhesion, orientation, motility, proliferation, migration, or differentiation is accessible [38], In terms of adhesion, proliferation... 

Potential applications of peptide-polymer conjugates include drug delivery materials, optoelectronics, biosensors, tissue scaffolds, tissue replacement materials, hydrogels, adhesives, biomimetic polymers, lithographic masks, and templates for metallic or silica nanostructures. 

A substrate functionalized with proper molecules can be used to anchor particles on its surface via surface exchange reaction, leading to controlled assembly of the particles. This self-assembly technique is known as molecule-mediated self-assembly and is commonly used for constructing various composite nanostructures [49-55]. Due to their excellent adhesion capability to various substrates, multifunctional polymers are routinely applied as templates to mediate the assembly of the particles. The assembly is carried out as follows a substrate is immersed into a polymer solution, and then rinsed, leading to a functionalized substrate. Subsequently, this substrate is dipped into the nanoparticle dispersion and then rinsed, leaving one layer of nanoparticles on the substrate surface. By repeating this simple two-step process in a cyclic fashion, a layer-by-layer assembled poly-mer/nanoparticle multilayer can be obtained. 

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