TY - JOUR
T1 - Super water-repellent surfaces with fractal structures and their potential application to biological studies
AU - Yan, Hu
AU - Shiga, Hatsuki
AU - Ito, Etsuro
AU - Nakagaki, Toshiyuki
AU - Takagi, Seiji
AU - Ueda, Tetsuo
AU - Tsujii, Kaoru
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Mr. Kazutomo Kurogi, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, for his assistance for preparation of the poly(alkylpyrrole) films and SEM measurements. H.Y. acknowledges financial support from 21st century COE program “Center of Excellence for Advanced Life Science on the Base of Bioscience and Nanotechnology” of Hokkaido University, Japan. This work was partly supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (No. 16310077) from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan.
PY - 2006/8/15
Y1 - 2006/8/15
N2 - Super water repellency of solid surfaces can be realized by formation of fractal structures, which were verified and explained by various materials, such as alkylketene dimer (AKD), platinum-palladium alloy-covered AKD, and poly(alkylpyrrole), and also by comparison of fractal surfaces with smooth ones. Novel potential applications of the fractal solid surfaces to unique biological studies are suggested based on our previous and the present biological studies on fractal AKD surfaces.
AB - Super water repellency of solid surfaces can be realized by formation of fractal structures, which were verified and explained by various materials, such as alkylketene dimer (AKD), platinum-palladium alloy-covered AKD, and poly(alkylpyrrole), and also by comparison of fractal surfaces with smooth ones. Novel potential applications of the fractal solid surfaces to unique biological studies are suggested based on our previous and the present biological studies on fractal AKD surfaces.
KW - Astrocytes
KW - Cell culture
KW - Electrochemical polymerization
KW - Fractal structure
KW - Physarum polycephalum
KW - Super water-repellency
KW - Wettability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2005.10.083
DO - 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2005.10.083
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33744920842
SN - 0927-7757
VL - 284-285
SP - 490
EP - 494
JO - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
JF - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
ER -