TY - JOUR A1 - Risinggård, H. K. A1 - Cooil, S. A1 - Mazzola, F. A1 - Hu, D. A1 - Kjaervik, Marit A1 - Østli, E. R. A1 - Patil, N. A1 - Preobrajenski, A. A1 - Ewans, A. D. A1 - Breiby, D. W. A1 - Trinh, T. T. A1 - Wells, J. W. T1 - Degradation of the chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil on medical-grade silver surfaces N2 - The degradation of the chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil by a non-pristine metal surfaces is studied.Using density functional theory, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray absorption spectroscopy we show that the drug is entirely degraded by medical-grade silver surfaces, already at body temperature,and that all of the fluorine has left the molecule, presumably as HF. Remarkably, this degradation is even more severe than that reported previously for 5-fluorouracil on a pristine monocrystalline silver surface(in which case 80% of the drug reacted at body temperature) [1]. We conclude that the observed reaction is due to a reaction pathway, driven by H to F attraction between molecules on the surface, which results in the direct formation of HF; a pathway which is favoured when competing pathways involving reactive Ag surface sites are made unavailable by environmental contamination. Our measurements indicate that realistically cleaned, non-pristine silver alloys, which are typically used in medical applications, can result in severe degradation of 5-fluorouracil, with the release of HF – a finding which may have important implications for the handling of chemotherapy drugs. KW - Surface science KW - Chemotherapy KW - DFT KW - Photoemission KW - Fluorouracil KW - Silver PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.11.221 SN - 0169-4332 VL - 435 SP - 1213 EP - 1219 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam, The Netherlands AN - OPUS4-43450 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Harris, J. A1 - Mey, I. P. A1 - Böhm, C. F. A1 - Trinh, T. T. H. A1 - Fink, A. A1 - Bayer, F. A1 - Leupold, S. A1 - Prinz, Carsten A1 - Tripal, P. A1 - Palmisano, R. A1 - Wolf, S. E. T1 - Ultra-smooth and space-filling mineral films generated via particle accretion processes N2 - Nonclassical crystallization typically occurs via the attachment of individual nanoparticles. Intuitively, materials synthesized via this route should exhibit pronounced surface roughness and porosity as a hallmark of the formation process via particle accretion. Here, we demonstrate that nonclassical mineralization of calcium carbonate allows synthesis of ultra-smooth and dense surfaces with unprece-dented root-mean-square roughness of 0.285 nm, simply by con-trolling the hydration state of the nanosized building blocks using Mg doping. High fidelity coating of corrugated substrates can even be achieved. Nonclassical crystallization can thus lead to space-filling inorganic solid-state materials transgressing the implicit porosity commonly expected for particle-driven self-organization processes. KW - Nonclassical crystallization KW - Hydration KW - Particle accretion PY - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c9nh00175a VL - 4 IS - 6 SP - 1388 EP - 1393 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry AN - OPUS4-49488 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -