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Fedorovich V. V., Kalyuzhnyi S. V., Van der Meeren P., Verstraete W.
The Development of Phenomenological Model for Kinetics of Bacterial
Adsorption to Low Energy Surfaces
Abstract
Mathematical model of kinetics of bacterial adsorption on polymeric
materials with different levels of hydrophobicity was developed. The model
describes the system: bacteria, liquid phase, and solid surface and has the
number of cells attached to a surface in a fixed time interval as a main output
parameter. The model is based on the decomposition of the driving forces of the
adsorption process into two parts. The first part characterises the interaction
based on hydrophobic properties of bacteria and polymers and is expressed in
terms of interfacial tensions. The second part characterises all other types of
interactions, which cannot be expressed in the same way.
Copyright (C) Chemistry Dept., Moscow State University, 2002
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