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Vertical nanowire arrays as a versatile platform for protein detection and analysis
- Source :
- Nanoscale. 5(21)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Protein microarrays are valuable tools for protein assays. Reducing spot sizes from micro- to nano-scale facilitates miniaturization of platforms and consequently decreased material consumption, but faces inherent challenges in the reduction of fluorescent signals and compatibility with complex solutions. Here we show that vertical arrays of nanowires (NWs) can overcome several bottlenecks of using nanoarrays for extraction and analysis of proteins. The high aspect ratio of the NWs results in a large surface area available for protein immobilization and renders passivation of the surface between the NWs unnecessary. Fluorescence detection of proteins allows quantitative measurements and spatial resolution, enabling us to track individual NWs through several analytical steps, thereby allowing multiplexed detection of different proteins immobilized on different regions of the NW array. We use NW arrays for on-chip extraction, detection and functional analysis of proteins on a nano-scale platform that holds great promise for performing protein analysis on minute amounts of material. The demonstration made here on highly ordered arrays of indium arsenide (InAs) NWs is generic and can be extended to many high aspect ratio nanostructures.
- Subjects :
- Nitrilotriacetic Acid
Materials science
Nanostructure
Passivation
Nanowire
Protein Array Analysis
Biotin
Nanotechnology
Multiplexing
Indium
Arsenicals
Maleimides
chemistry.chemical_compound
Nickel
Miniaturization
Animals
General Materials Science
Image resolution
Serum Albumin
Fluorescent Dyes
Immunoassay
Nanowires
Proteins
Immobilized Proteins
chemistry
Protein microarray
Cattle
Streptavidin
Indium arsenide
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20403372
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nanoscale
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d56fca79ae1fa5091bd9c10117d6c19d