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Stachiv I, Gan L, Kuo CY, Šittner P, Ševeček O. Mass Spectrometry of Heavy Analytes and Large Biological Aggregates by Monitoring Changes in the Quality Factor of Nanomechanical Resonators in Air. ACS Sens 2020; 5:2128-2135. [PMID: 32551518 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c00756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Nanomechanical resonators are routinely used for identification of various analytes such as biological and chemical molecules, viruses, or bacteria cells from the frequency response. This identification based on the multimode frequency shift measurement is limited to the analyte of mass that is much lighter than the resonator mass. Hence, the analyte can be modeled as a point particle and, as such, its stiffness and nontrivial binding effects such as surface stress can be neglected. For heavy analytes (>MDa), this identification, however, leads to incorrectly estimated masses. Using a well-known frequency response of the nanomechanical resonator in air, we show that the heavy analyte can be identified without a need for highly challenging analysis of the analyte position, stiffness, and/or binding effects just by monitoring changes in the quality factor (Q-factor) of a single harmonic frequency. A theory with a detailed procedure of mass extraction from the Q-factor is developed. In air, the Q-factor depends on the analyte mass and known air damping, while the impact of the intrinsic dissipation is negligibly small. We find that the highest mass sensitivity (for considered resonator dimensions ∼zg) can be achieved for the rarely measured lateral mode, whereas the commonly detected flexural mode yields the lowest sensitivity. Validity of the proposed procedure is confirmed by extracting the mass of heavy analytes (>GDa) made of protein and Escherichia coli bacteria cells, and the ragweed pollen nanoparticle adsorbed on the surface of the nanomechanical resonator(s) in air, of which the required changes in the Q-factor were previously experimentally measured. Our results open a doorway for rapid detection of viruses and bacteria cells using standard nanomechanical mass sensors.
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- Ivo Stachiv
- Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 18221, Czech Republic
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- School of Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital in Prague, Charles University, Prague 128 00, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 18221, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Brno 616 69, Czech Republic
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Basu AK, Basu A, Bhattacharya S. Micro/Nano fabricated cantilever based biosensor platform: A review and recent progress. Enzyme Microb Technol 2020; 139:109558. [PMID: 32732024 DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2020.109558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Revised: 03/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Recent trends in biosensing research have motivated scientists and research professionals to investigate the development of miniaturized bioanalytical devices to make them portable, label-free and smaller in size. The performance of the cantilever-based devices which is one of the very important domains of sensitive field level detection has improved significantly with the development of new micro/nanofabrication technologies and surface functionalization techniques. The cantilevers have scaled down to Nano from micro-level and have become exceptionally sensitive and also have some anomalous associated properties due to the scale. In this review we have discussed about fundamental principles of cantilever operation, detection methods, and previous, present and future approaches of study through cantilever-based sensing platform. Other than that, we have also discussed the past major bio-sensing efforts through micro/nano cantilevers and about recent progress in the field.
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- Aviru Kumar Basu
- Design Programme, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, U.P. 208016, India; Microsystems Fabrication Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, U.P. 208016, India; Singapore University of Technology and Design, 487372 Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences, St. John's University, New York, N.Y 11439, USA
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- Design Programme, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, U.P. 208016, India; Microsystems Fabrication Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, U.P. 208016, India.
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Beardslee LA, Carron C, Demirci KS, Lehman J, Schwartz S, Dufour I, Heinrich SM, Josse F, Brand O. In-Plane Vibration of Hammerhead Resonators for Chemical Sensing Applications. ACS Sens 2020; 5:73-82. [PMID: 31840501 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.9b01651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Thermally excited and piezoresistively detected in-plane cantilever resonators have been previously demonstrated for gas- and liquid-phase chemical and biosensing applications. In this work, the hammerhead resonator geometry, consisting of a cantilever beam supporting a wider semicircular "head", vibrating in an in-plane vibration mode, is shown to be particularly effective for gas-phase sensing with estimated limits of detection in the sub-ppm range for volatile organic compounds. This paper discusses the hammerhead resonator design and the particular advantages of the hammerhead geometry, while also presenting mechanical characterization, optical characterization, and chemical sensing results. These data highlight the distinct advantages of the hammerhead geometry over other cantilever designs.
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- Luke A. Beardslee
- Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Groton, Connecticut 06349-5900, United States
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- Space and Intelligence Systems, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, Florida 32904, United States
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- IMS Laboratory, University of Bordeaux, Talence 33400, France
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Mehrabani S, Maker AJ, Armani AM. Hybrid integrated label-free chemical and biological sensors. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2014; 14:5890-928. [PMID: 24675757 PMCID: PMC4029679 DOI: 10.3390/s140405890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2014] [Revised: 03/10/2014] [Accepted: 03/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Label-free sensors based on electrical, mechanical and optical transduction methods have potential applications in numerous areas of society, ranging from healthcare to environmental monitoring. Initial research in the field focused on the development and optimization of various sensor platforms fabricated from a single material system, such as fiber-based optical sensors and silicon nanowire-based electrical sensors. However, more recent research efforts have explored designing sensors fabricated from multiple materials. For example, synthetic materials and/or biomaterials can also be added to the sensor to improve its response toward analytes of interest. By leveraging the properties of the different material systems, these hybrid sensing devices can have significantly improved performance over their single-material counterparts (better sensitivity, specificity, signal to noise, and/or detection limits). This review will briefly discuss some of the methods for creating these multi-material sensor platforms and the advances enabled by this design approach.
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- Simin Mehrabani
- Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
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- Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
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- Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
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Xu T, Yu H, Xu P, Xu W, Chen W, Chen C, Li X. Real-time enzyme-digesting identification of double-strand DNA in a resonance-cantilever embedded micro-chamber. LAB ON A CHIP 2014; 14:1206-1214. [PMID: 24496267 DOI: 10.1039/c3lc51294k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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A novel direct identification of double-strand DNA is proposed by using real-time enzyme-digestion in a resonant-cantilever embedded microfluidic chip. The new gene-level detection method is expected to replace the conventional DNA-hybridization based gene-detection that suffers from not only nonspecific adsorption induced false-positives but also complicated single-strand DNA preparation and hybridization. Since a detected DNA chain features a unique cutting site for a certain restriction-enzyme, the accurately cut-off mass (representing the length of the digested segment) can be online recorded by the frequency-shift signal of the resonant micro-cantilever sensor. This enzyme-digestion technique is confirmed by experimental identification of the stx2 gene of E. coli O157:H7. The direct-PCR sample is directly analyzed by using our lab-made cantilever-embedded microfluidic-chip. The 3776 bp DNA is immobilized via biotin-streptavidin binding and the added mass is recorded by a frequency-decrease of 15.9 kHz within 10 min. Then, with EcoRV-enzyme digestion at the site of 2635 bp, the cut-off mass is real-time detected by a frequency-increase of 10.2 kHz within 6 min. The detected frequency-shift ratio of 15.9/10.2 = 64.2% is consistent with the length ratio between the cut-off fragment and the whole DNA chain (2635/3776 = 69.8%). Hence, the simple and accurate double-strand detection method is verified experimentally.
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- Tiegang Xu
- State Key Lab of Transducer Technology and Science and Technology on Microsystem Lab, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai 200050, China.
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Johnson BN, Sharma H, Mutharasan R. Torsional and Lateral Resonant Modes of Cantilevers as Biosensors: Alternatives to Bending Modes. Anal Chem 2013; 85:1760-6. [DOI: 10.1021/ac303092q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Blake N. Johnson
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Menegazzo N, Kranz C, Mizaikoff B. Investigation of the anion uptake properties of cathodically electropolymerized poly(4-vinylpyridine) membranes. NEW J CHEM 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2nj40156h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Capobianco JA, Shih WY, Adams GP, Shih WH. Label-free Growth Receptor-2 Detection and Dissociation Constant Assessment in Diluted Human Serum Using a Longitudinal Extension Mode of a Piezoelectric Microcantilever Sensor. SENSORS AND ACTUATORS. B, CHEMICAL 2011; 160:349-356. [PMID: 22888196 PMCID: PMC3413307 DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2011.07.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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We have investigated real-time, label-free, in-situ detection of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (Her2) in diluted serum using the first longitudinal extension mode of a lead zirconate-lead titanate (PZT)/glass piezoelectric microcantilever sensor (PEMS) with H3 single-chain variable fragment (scFv) immobilized on the 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (MPS) insulation layer of the PEMS surface. We showed that with the longitudinal extension mode, the PZT/glass PEMS consisting of a 1 mm long and 127 μm thick PZT layer bonded with a 75 μm thick glass layer with a 1.8 mm long glass tip could detect Her2 at a concentration of 6-60 ng/ml (or 0.06-0.6 nM) in diluted human serum, about 100 times lower than the concentration limit obtained using the lower-frequency flexural mode of a similar PZT/glass PEMS. We further showed that with the longitudinal mode, the PZT/glass PEMS determined the equilibrium H3-Her2 dissociation constant K(d) to be 3.3±0.3 × 10(-8) M consistent with the value, 3.2±0.28 ×10(-8) M deduced by the surface plasmon resonance method (BIAcore).
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- Joseph A Capobianco
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Peptide receptor-based selective dinitrotoluene detection using a microcantilever sensor. Biosens Bioelectron 2011; 30:249-54. [PMID: 22000759 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2011.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2011] [Revised: 09/14/2011] [Accepted: 09/16/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We reported that peptide could be utilized as receptor molecule in the gas phase for application in micro/nano sensors by using a specific peptide that recognizes 2,4-dinitrotoluene at room temperature and in an atmospheric environment and measuring changes in the resonant frequency of the peptide immobilized microcantilevers. By using these peptides as receptors on a microcantilever sensor, we were able to experimentally detect 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT) vapor at concentrations as low as parts per billion (ppb) in the gas phase. While resonant frequency changes after binding between 2,4-DNT and the specific peptide receptor that was immobilized on microcantilevers were observed, the resonant frequency of DNT nonspecific peptide immobilized microcantilever did not change when exposed to 2,4-DNT vapor. The limit of detection (LOD) was calculated to be 431 ppt of limit of detection is numerically expected by experimental based on an equation that describes the relationship between the noise-equivalent analyte concentration. These results indicate that the peptide receptors hold great promise for use in the development of an artificial olfactory system and electronic nose based on micro/nanotechnology for monitoring various chemical vapors in the gas phase such as explosive mixtures of chemicals and/or volatile organic compounds.
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