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ArticlePharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Modeling Bacterial Attachment Mechanisms on Superhydrophobic and Superhydrophilic Substrates.

T Brian Cavitt, Niyati Pathak

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Article in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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T Brian CavittDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Lipscomb University, One University Park Drive, Nashville, TN 37204, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1106-5307
Niyati PathakDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Lipscomb University, One University Park Drive, Nashville, TN 37204, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1381-1497

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic substrates are widely known to inhibit the attachment of a variety of motile and/or nonmotile bacteria. However, the thermodynamics of attachment are complex. Surface energy measurements alone do not address the complexities of colloidal (i.e., bacterial) dispersions but do affirm that polar (acid-base) interactions (ΔGAB) are often more significant than nonpolar (Lifshitz-van der Waals) interactions (ΔGLW). Classical DLVO theory alone also fails to address all colloidal interactions present in bacterial dispersions such as ΔGAB and Born repulsion (ΔGBorn) yet accounts for the significant electrostatic double layer repulsion (ΔGEL). We purpose to model both motile (e.g.,

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bacterial-substrate interactionextended DLVO theoryGibbs interaction energysuperhydrophilicsuperhydrophobicsurface energy

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PMID34681201
PMCPMC8538270

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