Making ultrasensitive weighing biocompatible by placing the sample within a resonant cantilever.
Making ultrasensitive weighing biocompatible by placing the sample within a resonant cantilever.
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通过将样品放置在共振悬臂内,实现超灵敏称重的生物相容性。
DOI:
10.1002/anie.200702894
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发表时间:
2007
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通讯作者:
P. Tinnefeld
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作者:
P. Tinnefeld
Cantilever transducers constitute an emerging class of transducers for physical, chemical, and biological sensors. Generally, a sensor has to provide selective response, which can be obtained, in the case of a chemical sensor, for example, by specific binding to the target analyte. Here, the specificity can be accomplished by a receptor on the sensor surface that captures the analyte from solution. Besides the recognition process, a sensor requires a transduction process, that is, a specific physical process that transduces the molecular recognition event into a measurable, convenient output signal. A sensor can react to different quantities such as temperature, mass, or concentration of chemical or biologically relevant molecules. In recent years, cantilevers have emerged as a set of transducers that can be applied in all areas that are based purely on the transduction of mechanical energy. The key property is that different stimuli can affect the mechanical characteristics of the cantilever transducers which then can be measured comparatively easily.[1] The binding of an analyte to a selective layer on a cantilever transducer can create a change in the surface stress, which leads to the bending of a cantilever. Therefore, cantilevers are often modified only on one side. The bending of the cantilever transducer can be read out by various modes, for example, optically, through changes in piezoresistance, or by capacitance measurements. As cantilever deflections are often very small, cantilevers can alternatively be operated in a resonant mode to provide higher sensitivity. The working principle of the resonant mode is essentially the same as that of the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), which was introduced by Sauerbrey 50 years ago.[2] Micro-and nanomechanical resonators can be treated as weakly damped mechanical oscillators that can be described in a simplified form by Hook s law. Both the spring constant k and the total effective mass m* determine the mechanical resonance frequency ν of the resonator, which is altered upon addition of a mass Dm. Changes in the mass of the resonator translate into shifts of the resonance frequency ν [Eq.(1)]. ν ¼ 1