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Study of Short Peptide Adsorption on Solution Dispersed Inorganic Nanoparticles Using Depletion Method
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Ab initio modeling of protein/biomaterial interactions: competitive adsorption between glycine and water onto
Albert Rimola1, Marta Corno, Claudio Marcelo Zicovich-Wilson
1Dipartimento Chimica IFM, NIS Centre of Excellence and INSTM, University of Torino, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125, Torino, Italy.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : PCCP
|October 9, 2009
Abstract:
Both glycine and water exhibit a high affinity towards the hydroxyapatite HA surfaces. What happens when they are co-adsorbed at the HA (001) surface? B3LYP periodic calculations reveal that glycine displaces the pre-adsorbed water interacting directly with the HA surface.
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