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Rapid identification of bacteria utilizing amplified dielectrophoretic force-assisted nanoparticle-induced surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Cheng, I-Fang Chen, Tzu-Ying Lu, Rong-Ji Wu, Hung-Wei |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Dielectrophoresis (DEP) has been widely used to manipulate, separate, and concentrate microscale particles. Unfortunately, DEP force is difficult to be used in regard to the manipulation of nanoscale molecules/particles. For manipulation of 50- to 100-nm particles, the electrical field strength must be higher than 3 × 106 V/m, and with a low applied voltage of 10 Vp-p, the electrode gap needs to be reduced to submicrons. Our research consists of a novel and simple approach, using a several tens micrometers scale electrode (low cost and easy to fabricate) to generate a dielectrophoretic microparticle assembly to form nanogaps with a locally amplified alternating current (AC) electric field gradient, which is used to rapidly trap nanocolloids. The results show that the amplified DEP force could effectively trap 20-nm colloids in the nanogaps between the 5-μm particle aggregates. The concentration factor at the local detection region was shown to be approximately 5 orders of magnitude higher than the bulk solution. This approach was also successfully used in bead-based surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for the rapid identification of bacteria from diluted blood. |
| ISSN | 19317573 |
| Journal | Nanoscale Research Letters |
| Volume Number | 9 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC4085094 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| PubMed reference number | 25024685 |
| e-ISSN | 1556276X |
| DOI | 10.1186/1556-276x-9-324 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Publisher Date | 2014-06-27 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. Copyright © 2014 Cheng et al.; licensee Springer. |
| Subject Keyword | Dielectrophoresis Microparticle assembly Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Condensed Matter Physics Materials Science |