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    Langmuir-Blodgett films of hydrophobins HFBI and HFBII

    Year: 2005

    Journal: Surface Science 584 (2005) 35-40, 20111221

    Authors: Kaisa Kisko , Mika Torkkeli , Elina Vuorimaa , Helge Lemmetyinen , Oliver H. Seeck , Markus Linder , Ritva Serimaa

    Organizations: a Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, 00014 HU, Finland b Department of Materials Chemistry, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 541, 33101 Tampere, Finland c Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany d VTT Biotechnology, P.O. Box 1500, 02044 VTT, Finland

    Hydrophobins are small fungal proteins, which have remarkable surface–chemical properties. They self-assemble at hydrophobic/hydrophilic interfaces and work as adhesive agents and coatings. Sixteen layer Langmuir-Blodgett films of hydrophobins HFBI and HFBII from the fungus Trichoderma reesei were prepared and studied using grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction and reflectivity techniques. Both kind of films contain hexagonally ordered crystallites on the substrate with unit cell parameters of a = b = 54 Š(HFBI) and a = b = 55 Š(HFBII). The structure is similar to the structure of monolayer Langmuir-Blodgett films.