• Biomimetic bottle-brush polymer coatings for fabrication of ultra-low fouling surfaces 

    Xia, Yinqiang; Adibnia, Vahid; Huang, Renliang; Murschel, Frederic; Faivre, Jimmy; Xie, Guojun; Olszewski, Mateusz; De Crescenzo, Gregory; Qi, Wei; He, Zhimin; Su, Rongxin; Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof; Banquy, Xavier (Wiley, 2018-11-13)
    The increasing demand for long lasting antifouling surfaces has steered the development of accessible, novel, biocompatible and environmentally-friendly materials. Inspired by lubricin (LUB), a component of mammalian synovial fluid with excellent ...
  • Coiled-coil affinity-based system for the controlled release of biofunctionalized gold nanoparticles from alginate hydrogels 

    Roth, Audrey; Murschel, Frederic; Latreille, Pierre-Luc; Martinez, Vincent A.; Liberelle, Benoît; Banquy, Xavier; De Crescenzo, Gregory (American Chemical Society, 2019-04-05)
    Affinity-based systems represent a promising solution to control the delivery of therapeutics using hydrogels. Here, we report a hybrid system that is based on the peptidic E/K coiled coil affinity pair to mediate the release of gold nanoparticles (NPs) ...
  • Electrostatic screening length in “soft” electrolyte solutions 

    Adibnia, Vahid; Shrestha, Budha Ratna; Mirbagheri, Marziye; Murschel, Frederic; De Crescenzo, Gregory; Banquy, Xavier (American Chemical Society, 2019-07-30)
    Using the Surface Forces Apparatus on solutions of polymeric ions, the effect of specific ion–ion correlations is evaluated on the characteristic decay length, λ, of screened electrostatic interactions between charged surfaces. Electrolyte solutions ...