Surface functionalization

Templating Gold Surfaces with Function: A Self-Assembled Dendritic Monolayer Methodology Based on Monodisperse Polyester ScaffoldsKim Öberg †, Jarmo Ropponen †‡, Jonathan Kelly §, Peter Löwenhielm §, Mattias Berglin *, and Michael Malkoch *† 

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/la3041314

In this paper, a dendrimer-functionalized gold surface was used to determine how different functionality presented by dendrimers (-OH or -mannose) affected E. coli  binding.