Leanne E. Fisher

TL;DR: Diamond nanocone-patterned surfaces, representing biomimetic analogs of the naturally bactericidal cicada fly wing, are fabricated using microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition, followed by bias-assisted reactive ion etching, showing enhanced bactericidal ability over the more uniform, highly dense nanoc one surface.

TL;DR: Poly(ethylene terephthalate) nanocone arrays are generated through a polystyrene nanosphere-mask colloidal lithographic process and it is shown that modification of the mask diameter leads to a direct modification of centre-to-centre spacing between nanocones.

TL;DR: It is shown that coating a bSi surface composed of 15 μm-high needles conformably with BDD produces a robust electrochemical electrode with high sensitivity and high electroactive area, and also acts as an effective antibacterial surface, with the added advantage that being diamond-coated it is far more robust and less likely to become damaged than Si.

TL;DR: Simple polymers that instruct different immunological responses by modulating macrophage attachment and polarization to pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory phenotypes are identified and readily translatable into immune-instructive biomaterials for application in the medical device and regenerative medicine fields.