Study of the effect of mechanical stiffness substrata, assembled with polyelectrolyte multilayer thin films, on biofilm forming staphylococcus epidermidis' initial adhesion mechanism
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2008. === Includes bibliographical references (p. 35). === Polyelectrolyte multilayer thin films are polymer films assembled through a layer-by-layer sequential addition of oppositely charged polymers....
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43212 |