Abstract
Surface chemistry, charge, wettability, and roughness affect the adsorbed protein layer, influencing biocompatibility and functionality of implants. Material engineering seeks innovative, sensitive, and reliable characterization techniques for study the adsorbed proteins. These techniques must be suitable to be directly used on the surfaces of clinical interest. In this paper, the characterization of surfaces with topography and chemistry developed for osseointegration is performed by innovative surface analysis techniques to investigate the properties of adsorbed bovine serum albumin. Ti6Al4V alloy chemically treated with an oxidative process to obtain peculiar surface features (roughness and surface hydroxylation) was tested and compared with mirror-polished titanium. Albumin forms a continuous layer on both Ti surfaces when adsorbed from near physiological concentrations, as proved by Kelvin force probe microscopy. It was observed that the hydroxylation degree plays a pivotal role in determining the conformation of proteins after adsorption, where it strongly drives protein unfolding, as confirmed by Surface Enhanced Raman scattering, and in influencing the mechanism and chemical stability of protein-surface interactions, which was highlighted by zeta potential titration curves.
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