Augustine Robin, Sarry Frederic, Kalarikkal Nandakumar, Thomas Sabu, Badie Laurent, Rouxel Didier
1International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala 686 560 India.
6Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, De-Jur Building, Technion City, 3200003 Haifa, Israel.
Nanomicro Lett. 2016;8(3):282-290. doi: 10.1007/s40820-016-0088-2. Epub 2016 Mar 17.
Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices have been utilized for the sensing of chemical and biological phenomena in microscale for the past few decades. In this study, SAW device was fabricated by electrospinning poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) (P(VDF-TrFE)) incorporated with zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles over the delay line area of the SAW device. The morphology, composition, and crystallinity of P(VDF-TrFE)/ZnO nanocomposites were investigated. After measurement of SAW frequency response, it was found that the insertion loss of the SAW devices incorporated with ZnO nanoparticles was much less than that of the neat polymer-deposited device. The fabricated device was expected to be used in acoustic biosensors to detect and quantify the cell proliferation in cell culture systems.
在过去几十年里,表面声波(SAW)器件已被用于微尺度下化学和生物现象的传感。在本研究中,通过在SAW器件的延迟线区域静电纺丝掺入氧化锌(ZnO)纳米颗粒的聚(偏二氟乙烯 - 三氟乙烯)(P(VDF-TrFE))来制造SAW器件。研究了P(VDF-TrFE)/ZnO纳米复合材料的形态、组成和结晶度。在测量SAW频率响应后,发现掺入ZnO纳米颗粒的SAW器件的插入损耗远小于纯聚合物沉积器件的插入损耗。预期所制造的器件将用于声学生物传感器,以检测和量化细胞培养系统中的细胞增殖。