Year: 2014
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Bacterial surface adhesion, colonization and related infections have been major issues plaguing many industrial and biomedical applications.In fact, the very subject has posed engineering challenges and incented scientific questioning for as long as the history of modern day microbiology and materials science themselves.With the rapid advances of molecular engineering in the past few decades, engineers as well as scientists are now equipped with new tools to study and solve these age-old problems.In the wake of these recent developments, the central goal of this thesis is essentially three-fold: first, to expand the existing zwitterionic nonfouling polymer platform for the search of novel and pragmatic solutions to bacterial surface adhesion and subsequent proliferation; second, to adopt a chemical biology approach to understand and potentially combat the extreme
Author: Luo Mi
Language: English
Subfield: Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2266054587