Measuring interfacial and adhesion forces between bacteria and mineral surfaces with biological force microscopy

By S. Lower, C. Tadanier, M. Hochella. 2000

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Correlation of pH-dependent surface interaction forces to amino acid adsorption: Implications for the origin of life (2004, methodology): “The essence of these AFM techniques lies in the measurement of interactive forces between AFM tips and sample surfaces (e.g., Butt et al. 1995; Cappella and Dietler 1999; Lower et al. 2000, 2001), and the key difference between these techniques is whether and how the tips are pre-treated.”
There’s plenty of room at the bottom: nanoscience in geochemistry (2002, methodology): “Recently, all of these forces of interaction, between fully viable bacteria and various mineral surfaces in aqueous solution, have been quantitatively measured in real time using a variation of atomic force microscopy, a technique that we call biologic force microscopy, or BFM (Lower et al., 2000, 2”
A Shape‐Adaptive, Antibacterial‐Coating of Immobilized Quaternary‐Ammonium Compounds Tethered on Hyperbranched Polyurea and its Mechanism of Action (2014, methodology): “Staphylococcal adhesion forces on our hyperbranched Si-HBPEI coatings are far too high to allow bacterial desorption, as observed for adhesion forces of less than around 1 nN([44]) and in fact exceed all currently known forces by which bacteria adhere to surfaces([37,39]) by a factor of around six.”