Impacts of Hematite Nanoparticle Exposure on Biomechanical, Adhesive, and Surface Electrical Properties of Escherichia coli Cells

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• Supplemental file 1 - Section S1, justification of the loading force magnitude in the AFM force measurement; section S2, SEM analysis and SEM images of E. coli cells with adsorbed hematite NPs (Fig. S1); section S3, Young's modulus calculation using the Hertz model; section S4, EPM measurements and PSD changes over different adsorption times, as well as EPM measurements (Table S1) and modality of PSD of the bacterial suspension at different exposure or adsorption times (Fig. S2); section S5, histogram of surface potential distribution of hematite NPs (Fig. S3); section S6, more images of E. coli cells, obtained by KPFM (Fig. S4); section S7, correlation between the adsorbed mass of hematite NPs and surface potentials of E. coli cells (Fig. S5).
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