US-Mexico Cooperative Research: Plasma Assisted Enzyme Immobilization

9908696 Young这个美国-墨西哥奖将支持Raymond A. Young博士与墨西哥瓜达拉哈拉大学的Juan拉莫斯博士合作研究，致力于使用冷等离子体来修饰常见的聚合物表面，并使用这种表面进行酶固定。在从冷等离子体底物的酶固定化反应的区域中的初步研究证明了冷等离子体方法用于开发先进的分子识别和加工技术的可行性，该技术在生物技术工业中是有用的。 这些跨学科的努力可能会在21世纪的先进技术中发挥重要作用。拟议的研究融合了双方在互利研究方面的互补技能：墨西哥方面在等离子体化学和天然聚合物的改性和表征方面提供了强大的背景，而威斯康星州大学等离子体辅助制造中心和林业部的小组在天然和合成聚合物基材的表面改性领域拥有丰富的经验和设施。

9908696YoungThis US-Mexico award will support Prof. Raymond A. Young of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in a research collaboration with Dr. Juan Ramos of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, to work on the use of cold plasmas to modify common polymer surfaces and to use such surfaces for enzyme immobilization. Preliminary studies in the area of enzyme immobilization reactions from cold-plasma substrates demonstrate the viability of a cold-plasma approach for the development of advanced molecular recognition and machining technologies, useful in the biotech industry among others. These interdisciplinary efforts may play a significant role in the advanced technologies of the 21st century. The proposed research blends complementary skills on both sides in research of mutual benefit: the Mexican side providing a strong background in plasma chemistry and in the modification and characterization of natural polymers, while the group at the University of Wisconsin Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing and the Department of Forestry, has extensive experience and facilities in the area of surface modification of natural and synthetic polymeric substrates.