Research Article

Surface Epitope Coverage Affects Binding Characteristics of Bisphenol-A Functionalized Nanoparticles in a Competitive Inhibition Assay

Table 1

The epitope coverage and of each cysBPAv-AuNP.

CysBPAv-AuNPEpitope coverage (mol cm−2)Surface epitopes per AuNP% Surface coverage (10−8 mol L−1)

CysBPAv-AuNP-1633.0 × 10−1016320
CysBPAv-AuNP-1903.6 × 10−10190246.8 ± 2.9
CysBPAv-AuNP-2654.9 × 10−10265332.3 ± 0.9
CysBPAv-AuNP-3967.4 × 10−10396501.3 ± 0.4
CysBPAv-AuNP-80115.0 × 10−108011000.48 ± 0.06

— cannot be estimated due to high variability in data.