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  • 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 ...
  • Chitosan hydrogel micro-bio-devices with complex capillary patterns via reactive-diffusive self-assembly 

    Adibnia, Vahid; Mirbagheri, Marziye; Latreille, Pierre-Luc; Faivre, Jimmy; Cécyre, Bruno; Bouchard, Jean-François; Martinez, Vincent A.; Delair, Thierry; David, Laurent; Hwang, Dae Kun; Banquy, Xavier (Elsevier, 2019-08-29)
    We present chitosan hydrogel microfluidic devices with self-assembled complex microcapillary patterns, conveniently formed by a diffusion-reaction process. These patterns in chitosan hydrogels are formed by a single-step procedure involving diffusion ...
  • Deep tissue penetration of bottle-brush polymers via cell capture evasion and fast diffusion 

    Rabanel, Jean-Michel; Mirbagheri, Marziye; Olszewski, Mateusz; Xie, Guojun; Le Goas, Marine; Latreille, Pierre-Luc; Counil, Hermine; Hervé, Vincent; Oliveira Silva, Rummenigge; Zaouter, Charlotte; Adibnia, Vahid; Acevedo, Mariana; Servant, Marc; Martinez, Vincent A.; Patten, Shunmoogum A.; Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof; Ramassamy, Charles; Banquy, Xavier (American Chemical Society, 2022-12-14)
    Drug nanocarriers (NCs) capable of crossing the vascular endothelium and deeply penetrating into dense tissues of the CNS could potentially transform the management of neurological diseases. In the present study, we investigated the interaction of ...
  • 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 ...
  • Intermolecular interactions between Bottlebrush Polymers boost the protection of surfaces against frictional wear 

    Faivre, Jimmy; Shrestha, Buddha R.; Xie, Guojun; Olszewski, Mateusz; Adibnia, Vahid; Moldovan, Florina; Montembault, Alexandra; Sudre, Guillaume; Delair, Thierry; David, Laurent; Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof; Banquy, Xavier (ACS Publications, 2018-05-30)
    Polymers exhibiting the bottlebrush (BB) architecture have excellent lubricating properties. However, to motivate their use in real life systems, they must also protect surfaces against frictional damage. In this article, we synthesized a library of ...
  • Nanoparticle heterogeneity : an emerging structural parameter 2 influencing particle fate in biological media? 

    Rabanel, Jean-Michel; Adibnia, Vahid; Tehrani, Soudeh F.; Sanche, Steven; Hildgen, Patrice; Banquy, Xavier; Ramassamy, Charles (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018-11-27)
    Drug nanocarriers’ surface chemistry is often presumed to be uniform. For instance, the polymer surface coverage and distribution of ligands on nanoparticles are described with averaged values obtained from quantification techniques based on particle ...
  • 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 ...
  • Phytoglycogen nanoparticles : nature-derived superlubricants 

    Adibnia, Vahid; Ma, Yingshan; Halimi, Ilias; Walker, Gilbert C.; Banquy, Xavier; Kumacheva, Eugenia (American Chemical Society, 2021-05-07)
    Phytoglycogen nanoparticles (PhG NPs), a single-molecule highly branched polysaccharide, exhibit excellent water retention, due to the abundance of close-packed hydroxyl groups forming hydrogen bonds with water. Here we report lubrication properties ...
  • Plasmon-free polymeric nanowrinkled substrates for surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy of two-dimensional materials 

    Mirbagheri, Marziye; Kaur, Jasneet; Pham, Hoang Vu; Adibnia, Vahid; Zarrin, Hadis; Banquy, Xavier; Hwang, Dae Kun (American Chemical Society, 2020-12-21)
    We report plasmon-free polymeric nanowrinkled substrates for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Our simple, rapid, and cost-effective fabrication method involves depositing a poly(ethylene glycol)diacrylate (PEGDA) prepolymer solution droplet ...
  • Short-sequence superadhesive peptides with topologically en-hanced cation-π interactions 

    Chang, Heng; Adibnia, Vahid; Li, Chuanxi; Su, Rongxin; Qi, Wei; Banquy, Xavier (American Chemical Society, 2021-06-03)
    In this study, using the surface force apparatus, we report engineered peptides with short sequences of phenylalanine (F) and lysine (K) amino acids capable of forming the most efficient cation−π interactions reported for underwater adhesive systems ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...