Tunable Superhydrophobic Aluminum Surfaces with Anti-Biofouling and Antibacterial Properties
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Surfaces in a hygiene critical environment can become potential reservoirs for transmission of pathogenic infections. Engineering surfaces with the tunable anti-biofouling and antibacterial properties could reduce infections particularly in hospitals and public transport hubs. In the present work, a facile two-step process has been deployed to fabricate a superhydrophobic and antibacterial aluminum surface by chemical etching, followed by passivation with low surface energy octyltriethoxysilane (OTES) molecules. The wettability and antibacterial properties of the OTES passivated aluminum was monotonically tuned by adding quaternary ammonium (QUATs) molecules. An anti-biofouling property of 99.9% against Staphylococcus aureus, 99% against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and 99% against E. coli bacteria, was achieved.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it