Investigating organic multilayers by spectroscopic ellipsometry: specific and non-specific interactions of polyhistidine with NTA self-assembled monolayers

Background: A versatile strategy for protein–surface coupling in biochips exploits the affinity for polyhistidine of the nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) group loaded with Ni(II). Methods based on optical reflectivity measurements such as spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) allow for label-free, non-invasiv...

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Main Authors: Solano, Ilaria, Parisse, Pietro, Cavalleri, Ornella, Gramazio, Federico, Casalis, Loredana, Canepa, Maurizio
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Beilstein-Institut 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4901546/