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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 319-325Publisher
ROYAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2005.0041
Keywords
adhesion; wetting theory; biofouling; Ulva; environmental scanning electron microscopy; self-assembled monolayers
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The environmental scanning electron microscope has been used to image the adhesive pads secreted by zoospores of the marine alga Ulva linza as they settle on a rang of self-assembled and grafted monolayers of different wettability, under natural. hydrated conditions. Results reveal that the diameter of the adhesive pad is strongly influenced by surface wettability, the adhesive spreading more (i.e. wetting the surface better) on the more hydrophilic surfaces. This is in direct contrast to previous observations on the spreading of marine bioadbesives and is in apparent contradiction to the predictions of the Young-Dupre equation for three-phase systems. In this paper, we attempt an explanation based upon thermodynamic analysis of the wetting properties of hydrophilic proteins.
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