Laser-textured metal surfaces mimic shark skin to combat #bacterial #biofilms.

#biofouling #antimicrobial #ecesis #colonization

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-laser-textured-metal-surfaces-mimic.html

#Carbohydrate produced by #bacteria triggers marine #biofouling.

#biofilms #lipopolysaccharide

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-carbohydrate-bacteria-triggers-marine-biofouling.html

The final version of our #paper in #Bioelectrochemistry journal is available now.

" #Biofouling and performance of boron-doped diamond electrodes for detection of #dopamine and #serotonin in #neuron cultivation media"

This share link will be available without paywall for 50 days: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1i-yO5aQisYVhq

#ElectrochemicalDetection #BDD #publication #Chemistry #Electrochemistry #Science

How AI and Robotics Can Make Maritime Shipping More Sustainable
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SustainableShipping #Biofouling #IMO #MaritimeInnovation #AI #Robotics #CleanSeas #NeptuneRobotics
https://the-14.com/how-ai-and-robotics-can-make-maritime-shipping-more-sustainable/

Some #biofouling species on parade!
Blue mussels, skeleton shrimp, amphipods oh my!
And tunicates with anemones on top!
#Halifax

It was nice to collaborate on this project, led by PhD student Emma at the Crick group using bacterial adhesion assays to optimise the hydrophobicity of surfaces to prevent biofouling.

#materialsscience #biofouling #microbiology

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admi.202202532

We've just excluding yet another cruise ship infested with contaminants. This time it's the Azamara Quest.

Note that the exclusion only applies to special marine areas -- Fiordland, the Bay of Islands and Akaroa. Dirty ships are still permitted to dock in Dunedin, Lyttelton (Christchurch), Wellington, Napier, Timaru, Tauranga and Auckland.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/130955278/cruise-ship-azamara-quests-passengers-not-too-happy-with-change-in-cruises-plans-due-to-biofouling

#CruiseShips #BioFouling #NZ

Yet another cruise ship has been turned away from NZ for having a dirty bottom. I believe three makes a hat-trick.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/481910/third-cruise-ship-in-three-weeks-fails-nz-s-biofouling-standards

#CruiseShips #BioFouling

This news story from ABC News about a delay in the docking of a cruise liner in Port #Melbourne due to its hull being biofouled may have been getting some attention for its impact on passengers, but if you want to know more about the reasons behind the decision to delay its docking check out the research journal link I've added about the role of shipping as a vector for #marine #InvasiveSpecies

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-02/cruise-ship-stranded-south-australia-melbourne-marine-growth/101822590

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X22001783

#biodiversity #ecology #biofouling