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Electrochemical impedance measurement of prostate cancer cells using carbon nanotube array electrodes in a microfluidic channel

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YeoHeung Yun1, Zhongyun Dong2, Vesselin N Shanov3 and Mark J Schulz1

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Highly aligned multi-wall carbon nanotubes were synthesized in the shape of towers and embedded into fluidic channels as electrodes for impedance measurement of LNCaP human prostate cancer cells. Tower electrodes up to 8 mm high were grown and easily peeled off a silicon substrate. The nanotube electrodes were then successfully soldered onto patterned printed circuit boards and cast into epoxy under pressure. After polishing the top of the tower electrodes, RF plasma was used to enhance the electrocatalytic effect by removing excess epoxy and activating the open end of the nanotubes. Electrodeposition of Au particles on the plasma-treated tower electrodes was done at a controlled density. Finally, the nanotube electrodes were embedded into a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) channel and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy was carried out with different conditions. Preliminary electrochemical impedance spectroscopy results using deionized water, buffer solution, and LNCaP prostate cancer cells showed that nanotube electrodes can distinguish the different solutions and could be used in future cell-based biosensor development.


PACS

87.85.Qr Nanotechnologies-design

87.19.R- Mechanical and electrical properties of tissues and organs

85.85.+j Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices

82.80.Fk Electrochemical methods

87.64.-t Spectroscopic and microscopic techniques in biophysics and medical physics

87.17.-d Cell processes

Subjects

Electronics and devices

Medical physics

Biological physics

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Chemical physics and physical chemistry

Dates

Issue 46 (21 November 2007)

Received 31 July 2007, in final form 22 September 2007

Published 12 October 2007



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