RRC ID 56729
著者 Takayuki Hoshino, Hiroki Miyazako, Atsuki Nakayama, Akira Wagatsuma, Kunihiko Mabuchi
タイトル Electron beam induced fine virtual electrode for mechanical strain microscopy of living cell
ジャーナル Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
Abstract We have demonstrated nanomechanical applications using physicochemical and electrochemical phenomena of inverted-electron beam lithography (I-EBL), which induced in-situ two-dimensional (2-D) processing on wet samples and a living cell after the EB was stoppted in a 100-nm thick SiN membrane. The incident EB generates a virtual electrode and then this induces electrochemical and electrokinetic phenomena around the scanning trajectory. The I-EBL processing has a 120-nm resolution in full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) at the deposited line-and-space pattern in 10 mM 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) diluted water solution. The virtual electrode also causes a electrokinetic local repulsive force with < ∼ 1 μm resolution toward the negatively charged nanoparticles, and the 2-D scanning of the EB allows 2-D actuation of the nanoparticles dispersed in a pure water solution. The virtual electrode also induces local detachment of adherent nanoparticles and focal adhesion of a living cell from the SiN membrane in a saline solution, probably due to both electrokinetic and partly chemical protein denaturation processes. The local detachment of a living cell is utilized to investigate spatio-temporal distributions of intracellular elastic strain as mechanical strain microscopy (MSM), which represents mechanical connectivity in the intracellular structure. This MSM should provide visualization of the location of the force generation in the cell.
公開日 2016-6-7
DOI 10.1016/j.snb.2016.06.023
IF 7.1
引用数 5
リソース情報
ヒト・動物細胞 C2C12(RCB0987)