• 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 ...
  • Interfacial forces across ionic liquid solutions : effect of ion concentration and water domains 

    Adibnia, Vahid; Mirbagheri, Marziye; Latreille, Pierre-Luc; De Crescenzo, Gregory; Rochefort, Dominic; Banquy, Xavier (American Chemical Society, 2019-07-23)
    Using the surface force apparatus (SFA), the interaction forces between mica surfaces across ionic liquid (IL) solutions are studied. The IL solution, 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide in propylene carbonate solvent, is used ...
  • Nonspecific interactions in biomedical applications 

    Adibnia, Vahid; Mirbagheri, Marziye; Salimi, Sina; De Crescenzo, Gregory; Banquy, Xavier (Elsevier, 2019-12-20)
    Nonspecific interactions play a major role in the microscale functioning of biological units. Exploiting these interactions in design and application of biomedical systems has been beneficial in different branches of biomedicine. In this review, recently ...
  • Superlubricity of zwitterionic bottlebrush polymers in the presence of multivalent ions 

    Adibnia, Vahid; Olszewski, Mateusz; De Crescenzo, Gregory; Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof; Banquy, Xavier (American Chemical Society, 2020-08-13)
    In this study, we report lubrication properties of physisorbed zwitterionic bottlebrush polymers in the presence of multivalent ions using the surface force apparatus. Unlike polyelectrolyte brushes, the lubrication properties of which diminish drastically ...
  • Superswelling microneedle arrays for dermal interstitial fluid (prote) omics 

    Laszlo, Elise; De Crescenzo, Gregory; Nieto-Argüello, Alfonso; Banquy, Xavier; Brambilla, Davide (Wiley, 2021-08-16)
    The noninvasive sampling of dermal interstitial fluid (ISF) for the monitoring of clinical biomarkers is a greatly appealing area of research. The identification of molecular biomarkers in biological fluids has been accelerated with -omics analyses but ...
  • Synergy between zwitterionic polymers and hyaluronic acid enhances antifouling performance 

    Xia, Yinqiang; Adibnia, Vahid; Shan, Cancan; Huang, Renliang; Qi, Wei; He, Zhimin; Xie, Guojun; Olszewski, Mateusz; De Crescenzo, Gregory; Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof; Banquy, Xavier; Su, Rongxin (American Chemical Society, 2019-09-03)
    Challenges associated with nonspecific adsorption of proteins on sensor surfaces have steered the development of novel antifouling materials and strategies. Inspired by human synovial fluid composition and structure, we designed synergistic antifouling ...