No, really, how do cells and proteins stick to surfaces???
Reviews:
E. A. Vogler, Interfacial Chemistry in Biomaterial Science, in Wettability (Surfactant Science Series 49) Ed. J. Berg, Marcel Dekker: New York, pp. 184-250 (1993)..
E. A. Vogler, Structure and Reactivity of Water at Biomaterial Surfaces, Adv. Colloid and Interface Sci. 74, 69 (1998).
E. A. Vogler, Water and the Acute Biological Response to Surfaces, J. Biomat. Sci. Polym. Ed., 10, 1015 (1999).
Cell Adhesion:
J. Y. Lim, X. Liu, E. A. Vogler, H. J. Donahue, Systematic Variation in Osteoblast Adhesion and Phenotype with Substratum Surface Characteristics, J. Biomed. Mat. Res., 68A, 504 (2004).
E. A. Vogler and R. W. Bussian, Short-Term Cell-Attachment Rates: A Surface Sensitive Test of Cell-Substrate Compatibility, J. Biomed. Mat. Res., 21, 1197 (1987).
E. A. Vogler, Thermodynamics of Short-Term Cell Adhesion in Vitro, Biophysical J., 53, 759 (1988).
E. A. Vogler, A Thermodynamic Model of Short-Term Cell Adhesion In Vitro, Colloids and Surfaces, 42, 233 (1989).

cartoon by Richard P. Clarke, 1989
Protein Adsorption: