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Sticking coefficients of adsorbing proteins
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602.
Abstract:
The protein sticking coefficient, phi, the fraction of collisions that result in adsorption, is a function of the molecular interactions between the protein and the surface. A random walk and diffusion-to-capture model was used to describe the kinetics of protein adsorption. The assumption of a constant sticking coefficient leads to a first-order model of the kinetics. A solution of the problem of adsorption from a semi-infinite medium with first-order kinetics at the boundary was obtained by numerical simulation on the computer. The results of the computer simulations match the time dependence observed experimentally. A correlation was developed to estimate phi from experimental data. phi has been found to be in the range 10(-5)-10(-8) for several protein adsorption kinetic studies reported in the literature.
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