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Ishraaq R, Das S. All-atom molecular dynamics simulations of polymer and polyelectrolyte brushes. Chem Commun (Camb) 2024; 60:6093-6129. [PMID: 38819435 DOI: 10.1039/d4cc01557f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
Abstract
Densely grafted polymer and polyelectrolyte (PE) brushes, owing to their significant abilities to functionalize surfaces for a plethora of applications in sensing, diagnostics, current rectification, surface wettability modification, drug delivery, and oil recovery, have attracted significant attention over the past several decades. Unfortunately, most of the attention has primarily focused on understanding the properties of the grafted polymer and the PE chains with little attention devoted to studying the behavior of the brush-supported ions (counterions needed to screen the PE chains) and water molecules. Over the past few years, our group has been at the forefront of addressing this gap: we have employed all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for studying a wide variety of polymer and PE brush systems with specific attention to unraveling the properties and behavior of the brush-supported water molecules and ions. Our findings have revealed some of the most fascinating properties of such brush-supported ions and water molecules, including the most remarkable control of nanofluidic transport afforded by the specific ion and water responses induced by the PE brushes grafted on the inner walls of the nanochannel. This feature article aims to summarize some of our key contributions associated with such atomistic simulations of polymer and PE brushes and brush-supported water molecules and counterions.
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- Raashiq Ishraaq
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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Parfenova LV, Galimshina ZR, Gil’fanova GU, Alibaeva EI, Danilko KV, Aubakirova VR, Farrakhov RG, Parfenov EV, Valiev RZ. Modeling of Biological Activity of PEO-Coated Titanium Implants with Conjugates of Cyclic RGD Peptide with Amino Acid Bisphosphonates. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 15:8120. [PMID: 36431607 PMCID: PMC9699121 DOI: 10.3390/ma15228120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Titanium is considered to be the most essential metal in the field of implantology. The main factors determining metal biocompatibility, among others, include the morphology and chemical composition of the titanium surface. Therefore, the aim of this work was to develop approaches to control the biological activity of the titanium surface by creating coatings that combine both an inorganic phase with a given morphology and organic molecules containing an integrin-selective peptide that regulate cell adhesion and proliferation. As such, we synthesized new c(RGDfC) derivatives of amino acid bisphosphonates (four examples) with different bisphosphonate anchors and maleimide linkers. These molecules were deposited on a highly developed porous surface obtained via the plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) of coarse-grained and nanostructured titanium. In vitro studies demonstrated the increase in the viability degree of mesenchymal stem cells and fibroblasts on the surface of coarse-grained or nanostructured titanium modified with PEO and a c(RGDfC) derivative of ε-aminocaproic acid bisphophonate with an SMCC linker. As a result, the use of conjugates of amino acid bisphosphonates with a cyclic RGD peptide for the modification of PEO-coated titanium opens the ways for the effective control of the biological activity of the metal implant surface.
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- Lyudmila V. Parfenova
- Institute of Petrochemistry and Catalysis, Ufa Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 141, Prospekt Oktyabrya, 450075 Ufa, Russia
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- Institute of Petrochemistry and Catalysis, Ufa Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 141, Prospekt Oktyabrya, 450075 Ufa, Russia
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- Institute of Petrochemistry and Catalysis, Ufa Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 141, Prospekt Oktyabrya, 450075 Ufa, Russia
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- Institute of Petrochemistry and Catalysis, Ufa Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 141, Prospekt Oktyabrya, 450075 Ufa, Russia
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- Central Research Laboratory, Bashkir State Medical University, 3 Lenin Street, 450000 Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, 12 Karl Marx Street, 450008 Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, 12 Karl Marx Street, 450008 Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Materials Science and Physics of Metals, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, 12 Karl Marx Street, 450008 Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Materials Science and Physics of Metals, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, 12 Karl Marx Street, 450008 Ufa, Russia
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Schwartz A, Kossenko A, Zinigrad M, Gofer Y, Borodianskiy K, Sobolev A. Hydroxyapatite Coating on Ti-6Al-7Nb Alloy by Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation in Salt-Based Electrolyte. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 15:ma15207374. [PMID: 36295438 PMCID: PMC9611249 DOI: 10.3390/ma15207374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2022] [Revised: 10/15/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Titanium alloys have good biocompatibility and good mechanical properties, making them particularly suitable for dental and orthopedic implants. Improving their osseointegration with human bones is one of the most essential tasks. This can be achieved by developing hydroxyapatite (HA) on the treating surface using the plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) method in molten salt. In this study, a coating of titanium oxide-containing HA nanoparticles was formed on Ti-6Al-7Nb alloy by PEO in molten salt. Then, samples were subjected to hydrothermal treatment (HTT) to form HA crystals sized 0.5 to 1 μm. The effect of the current and voltage frequency for the creation of the coating on the morphology, chemical, and phase composition was studied. The anti-corrosion properties of the samples were studied using the potentiodynamic polarization test (PPT) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). An assessment of the morphology of the sample formed at a frequency of 100 Hz shows that the structure of this coating has a uniform submicron porosity, and its surface shows high hydrophilicity and anti-corrosion properties (4.90 × 106 Ohm·cm2). In this work, for the first time, the process of formation of a bioactive coating consisting of titanium oxides and HA was studied by the PEO method in molten salts.
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- Avital Schwartz
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel 4070000, Israel
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel 4070000, Israel
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel 4070000, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel 4070000, Israel
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +972-3-9143085
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A pH-sensitive field-effect transistor for monitoring of cancer cell external acid environment. Talanta 2022; 252:123764. [PMID: 35969927 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2022] [Revised: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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