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Probing Biopolymer Films with Scanning Force Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Greg Haugstad ,
Wayne L. Gladfelter ,
Elizabeth B. Weberg ,
Rolf T. Weberg  and
Timothy D. Weatherill
Greg Haugstad
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota, Department of Chemistry and Center for Interfacial Engineering, 187 Shepherd Laboratories, 100 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Wayne L. Gladfelter
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota, Department of Chemistry and Center for Interfacial Engineering, 187 Shepherd Laboratories, 100 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Elizabeth B. Weberg
Affiliation:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Medical Products Division, Brevard, NC 28712
Rolf T. Weberg
Affiliation:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Medical Products Division, Brevard, NC 28712
Timothy D. Weatherill
Affiliation:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Medical Products Division, Brevard, NC 28712
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Abstract

Scanning force microscopy of thin gelatin films on mica reveals two distinct film components with characteristic frictional, morphological and adsorptive signatures. A high-friction film 1–4 nm thick completely wets the mica surface, while a low-friction minority component is present primarily as porous islands on top of the high-friction layer. Additional domains of extremely high friction within the majority component are detected in frictional images obtained with a blunt, gelatin-covered tip; no corresponding topographic differences are imaged. A high-force scanning procedure remarkably transforms the majority component into the low-friction phase if a sufficient amount of water is present in or on the film. The nanostructure of both components is imaged using a nanometer-scale asperity of gelatin attached to the SFM tip. The anticipated network structure of gelatin is observed on the high-friction majority phase. The low-friction phase is interpreted as moieties of intramolecularly-folded gelatin, with thickness (1.5±0.2 nm) equal to the diameter of the collagen-fold triple helix, containing substantial structural water.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 355: Symposium B1 – Evolution of Thin-Film and Surface Structure and Morphology , 1994 , 253
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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