Molecular Motor Propelled Filaments Reveal Light-Guiding in Nanowire Arrays for Enhanced Biosensing
ten Siethoff, Lasse ; Lard, Mercy LU ; Generosi, Johanna LU ; Andersson, Hakan S. ; Linke, Heiner LU
and Mansson, Alf
(2014)
In Nano Letters
14(2).
p.737-742
- Abstract
- Semiconductor nanowire arrays offer significant potential for biosensing applications with optical read-out due to their high surface area and due to the unique optical properties of one-dimensional materials. A challenge for optical read-out of analyte-binding to the nanowires is the need to efficiently collect and detect light from a three-dimensional volume. Here we show that light from fluorophores attached along Several mu m long vertical Al2O3 coated gallium phosphide nanowires couples into the wires, is guided along them and emitted at the tip. This enables effective collection of light emitted by fluorescent analytes located at different focal planes along the nanowire. We unequivocally demonstrate the light-guiding effect using a... (More)
- Semiconductor nanowire arrays offer significant potential for biosensing applications with optical read-out due to their high surface area and due to the unique optical properties of one-dimensional materials. A challenge for optical read-out of analyte-binding to the nanowires is the need to efficiently collect and detect light from a three-dimensional volume. Here we show that light from fluorophores attached along Several mu m long vertical Al2O3 coated gallium phosphide nanowires couples into the wires, is guided along them and emitted at the tip. This enables effective collection of light emitted by fluorescent analytes located at different focal planes along the nanowire. We unequivocally demonstrate the light-guiding effect using a novel method whereby the changes in emitted fluorescence intensity are observed when fluorescent cytoskeletal filaments are propelled by molecular motors along the wires. The findings are discussed in relation to nanobiosensor developments, other nanotechnological applications, and fundamental studies of motor function. (Less)
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- author
- ten Siethoff, Lasse
; Lard, Mercy
LU
; Generosi, Johanna
LU
; Andersson, Hakan S.
; Linke, Heiner
LU
and Mansson, Alf
- organization
- publishing date
- 2014
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- keywords
- Nanobiotechnology, in vitro motility assay, photonics, actin, myosin, actomyosin
- in
- Nano Letters
- volume
- 14
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 6 pages
- publisher
- The American Chemical Society (ACS)
- external identifiers
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- wos:000331343900052
- scopus:84894188778
- pmid:24367994
- ISSN
- 1530-6992
- DOI
- 10.1021/nl404032k
- language
- English
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- yes
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publisher = {{The American Chemical Society (ACS)}},
series = {{Nano Letters}},
title = {{Molecular Motor Propelled Filaments Reveal Light-Guiding in Nanowire Arrays for Enhanced Biosensing}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl404032k}},
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