Adsorption of a Carboxylated Silane on Gold: Characterization for Its Rational Use in Hybrid Glass/Gold Substrates
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Abstract
Integrated sensing and biosensing microfluidic systems often require sealing between polysiloxane, glass, and gold interfaces, while maintaining functional support on the gold surface within the cell chamber (e.g., biomolecular interaction analysis). A carboxylated trimethoxysilane (TMS-EDTA) coating has been shown to facilitate the bonding of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to gold and glass slides. In this work, the adsorption of TMS-EDTA onto Au is characterized in order to enable its rational use in hybrid glass/gold substrates. Surface plasmon resonance results suggest that carboxylates are available for streptavidin immobilization. Atomic force microscopy studies indicate that a uniform surface coverage with monolayer thickness is formed. Infrared spectroscopy studies confirm that the carboxyl groups are present. Moreover, there is little evidence of siloxane cross-linking. Electrochemical differential capacitance measurements reveal that the potential-dependent free energies of adsorption are ∼−20 to–30 kJ/mol (for potentials between −0.5 and 0.2 V) in the complex electrolyte solution used. Furthermore, at highly negative potentials (∼−1.1 V), TMS-EDTA desorbs from the Au surface. The fundamental knowledge obtained about TMS-EDTA adsorption on Au can be applied to construct robust PDMS-based systems with hybrid glass/gold substrates.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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