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The effect of protein adsorption on the friction behavior of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene

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Medical-grade UHMWPE samples with two different surface finishing treatments, milling and melting/reforming were exposed to 10% bovine serum albumin solution and their friction responses were quantified using atomic force microscopy. The observed friction increase upon exposure to proteins was attributed to the formation of a layer of denatured proteins on the surface. Changing the crystallinity and surface energy of UHMWPE affected the protein adsorption mechanism and the resulting increase in friction behavior.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Dr. Pranav Shrotriya (Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University) for providing access to digital camera and supporting software for contact angle measurements; Andrew Mitchell for helping with MATLAB to obtain tip profiles; and Dr. Robert Doyle for his valuable assistance with the fluorescence measurements. Elastic modulus measurements were performed with the help of Mike Determan and Prof. B. Narasimhan (Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University). Financial support for this study was provided by a National Science Foundation grant (Grant No. CMS0409625) and a seed grant from US-DOE Ames Laboratory.

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    K. S. Kanaga Karuppiah & Sriram Sundararajan

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    Zhi-Hui Xu & Xiaodong Li

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Karuppiah, K.S.K., Sundararajan, S., Xu, ZH. et al. The effect of protein adsorption on the friction behavior of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. Tribol Lett 22, 181–188 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-006-9078-8

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