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Marine equipment
Blood
Synthetic
Implant
Implant
Adsorbed protein
Foreign body
giant cell
Biosensing Platform
Indistinguishable signal
False positives
False negatives
Biological sample:
Target analyte
Matrix interferents
Surface modifiers
Antifouling adlayer
Blaszykowski, C.; Sheikh, S.; Thompson, M. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2012, 41, 5599
Linkers for
biosensors
Alkyl: (CH2)n
Oligoethylene glycol (OEG): (OCH2CH2)n
Backbone
Perfluoroalkyl: (CF2)n
Peptides: (NHCHRCO)n
Anchoring function
Substrate
Cl Si
Cl
Cl
F
O
Cl
O
O
OTS
Cl
Cl
Si
MEG-OMe
F
Cl
Cl
Cl
Cl Si
Cl
O
O
Cl
TFE
OEG-TTTA
PFP-TTTA
Si
Cl
TTTA
Cl Si
Cl
Cl
Si
Cl
F
O
OTS-TFA
PFP
F
F
Cl
Cl
Cl
Si
MEG-TFA
F
F
Secondary electric
field
Thickness:
83 m
Electromagnetic
field
Biosensors:
Sample
injection
Biomaterial Coatings:
antifouling behaviour
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Bioanalytical:
Biosensors
Biomedical:
Biomaterials
Unimolecular
Antifouling Adlayers
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Frequency (MHz)
944.450
944.440
34 kHz
944.430
944.410
0
500
1000
1500
2000
Time (s)
Sheikh, S.; Yang, D. Y.; Blaszykowski, C.; Thompson, M. Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 1305
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quartz
quartz
MEG family
quartz
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quartz
quartz
Alkyl family
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Sheikh, S.; Yang, D. Y.; Blaszykowski, C.; Thompson, M. Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 1305
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MEG-OH
90
MEG-TFA
Cleaned quartz
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Bare quartz
gradual decrease
no rinse-off
irreversible adsorption
comparatively limited
initial drop
reversible adsorption
Frequency (MHz)
MEG-OH coating
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Frequency (MHz)
no treatment
(8% RSD, N = 5)
Sheikh, S.; Yang, D. Y.; Blaszykowski, C.; Thompson, M. Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 1305
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Water is crucial
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Neutron Reflectometry
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Layer 1
1-B
Transitional water
Silane adlayer
SLD1
Enhance scattering
contrast of Layer 1
d1
SiO2-1
dSiO2
Si-SiO2
Si, SLDSi = 2.07 x 10-6 -2
Pawlowska, N. M.; Fritzsche, H.; Blaszykowski, C.; Sheikh, S.; Mansoor, V.; Thompson, M.
Langmuir 2014, 30, 1199
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Reflectivity Data
NR
SLD Profile
Sample
Modelling
+
Data Fitting
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SLD profiles
SiO2
Layer 1
Bulk
water
Water organization?
|F| ~ 22 kHz
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not to scale
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MD Simulations: Models
Surface functionalization
of -quartz with residue
Solvated
simulation cell:
Quartz slab:
1.97 x 1.97 x 0.90 nm
Full 5 x 5 coverage
~23,000 atoms
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Sheikh, S.; Blaszykowski, C.; Nolan, R.; Thompson, D.; Thompson, M. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2015, 437, 197
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Sheikh, S.; Blaszykowski, C.; Nolan, R.; Thompson, D.; Thompson, M. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2015, 437, 197
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9 ns
1 ns
1 ns
Water clustering
27 ns
Sheikh, S.; Blaszykowski, C.; Nolan, R.; Thompson, D.; Thompson, M. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2015, 437, 197
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Molecular-level
water structuration
Tightly-bound
hydration water
Limited
dynamicity
for hydration
water
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Water via surface hydration (and its state) plays a key role in
surface antifouling/protein repellency
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Acknowledgments
Supervisor:
Professor M. Thompson
Collaborators:
Current
Funding:
Organizing
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