Thermally Switchable Polymers Achieve Controlled Escherichia coli Detachment

Thermally Switchable Polymers Achieve Controlled Escherichia coli Detachment

The thermally triggered release of up to 96% of attached uropathogenic E. coli is achieved on two polymers with opposite changes in surface wettability upon reduction in temperature. This demonstrates that the bacterial attachment to a surface cannot be explained in terms of water contact angle alon...

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Main Authors: Hook, Andrew L. (Author), Chang, Chien-Yi (Author), Scurr, David J. (Author), Williams, Paul (Author), Davies, Martyn C. (Author), Alexander, Morgan R. (Author), Anderson, Daniel Griffith (Contributor), Langer, Robert S (Author)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor), Langer, Robert (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Wiley Blackwell, 2016-02-09T19:05:08Z.
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