The Relation Between the Surface Chemical Composition of Escherichia coli and their Electron Donor/Electron Acceptor (Acid-base) Properties

Additive and nonadditive surface tension components and the interpretation of contact angles

Carel J. van Oss, Robert J. Good, Manoj K. Chaudhury · Langmuir · 1988 · 1.4K citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +13

Acid—base interfacial interactions in aqueous media

Carel J. van Oss · Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects · 1993 · 915 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry +14

A chemical equilibrium model for metal adsorption onto bacterial surfaces

Jeremy B. Fein, Christopher J. Daughney, Nathan Yee et al. · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 1997 · 701 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Microbiology +16

Hydrophobicity of biosurfaces — Origin, quantitative determination and interaction energies

Carel J. van Oss · Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces · 1995 · 574 citations

Natural Sciences, Biophysics, Biomaterials +15

Microbial adhesion to solvents: a novel method to determine the electron-donor/electron-acceptor or Lewis acid-base properties of microbial cells

M.N. Bellon-Fontaine, J. Rault, Carel J. van Oss · Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces · 1996 · 478 citations

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Cell Adhesion +16