We have developed an optical chemical sensor for the detection of organophosphate (OP) compounds using a polymerized crystalline colloidal array (PCCA) thin film composed of a close-packed colloidal array of polystyrene particles. The PCCA thin film was modified with β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) polymer as a capping cavity for the selective detection of paraoxon-ethyl and parathion-ethyl chemical agen...

© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 1 wileyonlinelibrary.com Application area of BCP self-assembled thin films is highly restricted by the limited degree of freedom in pattern symmetry, typically including hexagonal close-packed cylinders/spheres and bilateral symmetric lamellae/cylinder arrays. Sparse density modulated nanopatterns and modified pattern symmetries are demanded for...

Lattices of single polystyrene particles were constructed by using a combinatorial approach to analyze particle pattern recognition properties. Dip-pen nanolithography was used to generate chemical templates of 16-thiohexadecanoic acid on a gold surface to study the two-dimensional assembly of amine- and amidine-modified particles.

A method has been developed that enables a conductive surface to be modified so as to capture dispersed particles when the temperature is increased; poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) was grafted from electrodeposited Laponite particles using surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerisation and used to capture dispersed polystyrene particles.

Mechanical cues present in the ECM have been hypothesized to provide instructive signals that dictate cell behavior. We probed this hypothesis in osteoblastic cells by culturing MC3T3-E1 cells on the surface of type I collagen-modified hydrogels with tunable mechanical properties and assessed their proliferation, migration, and differentiation. On gels functionalized with a low type I collagen ...

The preparation and characterization of high-surface-area polymeric substrates suitable for the microcalorimetry of protein adsorption are described. High-surface-area polystyrene, poly(styrene-co-butyl methacrylate) and poly(styrene-co-allyl alcohol) were prepared by adsorbing polymer from solution onto fumed silica. Verification of adsorption of polystyrene by silica was determined by noting ...