In biomedical, industrial, and marine fields, interactions between
bacteria and material interfaces are of great importance in biofilm
formation, biofouling, the development of antimicrobial surface
technologies, and the changing patterns of bacterial adhesion behavior
on non-biological surfaces become a focus of research by researchers.
Bacteria move from planktonic to adhesive behavior through
near-interfacial sociological behavior, specificity (specific bacterial
appendages such as hairs, flagella, curls, etc. that can bind to some
chemicals on certain surfaces), non-specific interactions (van der Waals
forces, electrostatic interactions, hydrophobic interactions or
acid-base interactions) and surface mechanical induction, a process that
the bacteria themselves can influence, the nature of the interfacial
material and the environment. A variety of methods have been developed
to measure cell adhesion. The continued development of atomic force
microscopy (AFM) techniques provides a more advanced means of exploring
bacterial-surface interactions and the various physicochemical
properties of bacterial cells. Based on a large amount of literature
research and tracking of related technological research developments,
this paper mainly introduces the domestic and international research
progress on the adhesion behavior between bacteria and material
interfaces in detail from the aspects of adhesion mechanism, influencing
factors, and testing methods, to provide a solid theoretical basis for
further advancing the study of bacterial-interface adhesion and to get
more scholars’ attention.