YeoHeung Yun et al 2007 Nanotechnology 18 465505 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/18/46/465505
YeoHeung Yun1, Zhongyun Dong2, Vesselin N Shanov3 and Mark J Schulz1
Show affiliationsHighly 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.
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
Issue 46 (21 November 2007)
Received 31 July 2007, in final form 22 September 2007
Published 12 October 2007
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