Direct measurement of electrostatic interactions between poly(methyl methacrylate) microspheres with optical laser tweezers

Soft Matter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (40) ◽  
pp. 8051-8058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyu Hwan Choi ◽  
Dong Woo Kang ◽  
Kyung Hak Kim ◽  
Jiwon Kim ◽  
Youngbok Lee ◽  
...  

Strong electrostatic repulsive forces between PMMA particles in CHB/decane mixtures were directly measured with optical laser tweezers.

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (58) ◽  
pp. 630-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel L. B. Palacio ◽  
Scott R. Schricker ◽  
Bharat Bhushan

The adhesive interactions of block copolymers composed of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) and poly(methyl methacrylate)/poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA) with the proteins fibronectin, bovine serum albumin and collagen were studied by atomic force microscopy. Adhesion experiments were performed both at physiological pH and at a slightly more acidic condition (pH 6.2) to model polymer–protein interactions under inflammatory or infectious conditions. The PMMA/PAA block copolymers were found to be more sensitive to the buffer environment than PMMA/PHEMA owing to electrostatic interactions between the ionized acrylate groups and the proteins. It was found that random, diblock and triblock copolymers exhibit distinct adhesion profiles although their chemical compositions are identical. This implies that biomaterial nanomorphology can be used to control protein–polymer interactions and potentially cell adhesion.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (97) ◽  
pp. 95062-95066 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Chaiyasat ◽  
S. Namwong ◽  
M. Okubo ◽  
A. Chaiyasat

Micrometer-sized poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) particles were successfully prepared without submicrometer-sized by-products for the first time by applying microsuspension iodine transfer polymerization with iodoform as a chain transfer agent.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohan R. Patil ◽  
Salomon Turgman-Cohen ◽  
Jiří Šrogl ◽  
Douglas Kiserow ◽  
Jan Genzer

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