Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9595545 | Surface Science | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Hydrophobins are small fungal proteins, which have remarkable surface-chemical properties. They self-assemble at hydrophobic/hydrophilic interfaces and work as adhesive agents and coatings. Sixteen layer Langmuir-Blodgett films of hydrophobins HFBI and HFBII from the fungus Trichoderma reesei were prepared and studied using grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction and reflectivity techniques. Both kind of films contain hexagonally ordered crystallites on the substrate with unit cell parameters of a = b = 54 Ã
(HFBI) and a = b = 55 Ã
(HFBII). The structure is similar to the structure of monolayer Langmuir-Blodgett films.
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Authors
Kaisa Kisko, Mika Torkkeli, Elina Vuorimaa, Helge Lemmetyinen, Oliver H. Seeck, Markus Linder, Ritva Serimaa,