Faculty Research: David Castner

Degrees:
1975, BS, Chemistry, Oregon State University 1979, PhD, Physical Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley

Awards and Professional Activities:
AVS Fellow

Areas of Research:

DNA & Protein/DNA Arrays	Bio-Inspired Materials
Self-Assembled Systems	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering

Selected Publications:
selected recent publications:



"Ultrasensitive Probing of the Protein Resistance of PEG Surfaces by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry," P. Kingshott, S.L. McArthur, H. Thissen, D.G. Castner and H.J. Griesser, Biomaterials, 23, 4775-4785, 2002.



"Characterization of a Cysteine Containing Peptide Tether Immobilized onto a Gold Surface," T. Baas, L. Gamble, K.D. Hauch, D.G. Castner and T. Sasaki, Langmuir, 18, 4898-4902, 2002.



"ToF-SIMS Analysis of Conformational Changes in Adsorbed Protein Films," N. Xia, C.J. May, S.L. McArthur and D.G. Castner, Langmuir, 18, 4090-4097, 2002.



"Interpretation of ToF-SIMS Spectra of Adsorbed Protein Films by Multivariate Pattern Recognition," M.S. Wagner, B.J. Tyler and D.G. Castner, Anal. Chem., 74, 1824-1835, 2002.



"Functionalized Poly(ethylene glycol)-grafted Polysiloxane Monolayers for Control of Protein Binding," N. Xia, Y. Hu, D.W. Grainger and D.G. Castner, Langmuir, 18, 3255-3262, 2002.



"Surface Structure and Orientation of PTFE Films Determined by Experimental and FEFF8-Calculated NEXAFS Spectra," L.J. Gamble, B. Ravel, D.A. Fischer, and D.G. Castner, Langmuir, 18, 2183-2189, 2002.



"Biomedical Surface Science: Foundations to Frontiers," D.G. Castner and B.D. Ratner, Surface Science, 500, 28-60, 2002.

Research Keywords:
ESCA XPS ToF-SIMS NEXAFS Adsorbed Proteins Self-assembled Monolayers Imaging Multivariate Analysis

Experticed Keywords:
Surface Analysis Biomaterials Surface Modification Organic Thin Films