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SUPERLATTICES AND MICROSTRUCTURES
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages 72-80Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2013.02.014
Keywords
Porous silicon; Two-chamber microstructure; Artificial cell membranes; Supported lipid membranes
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- Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program
- UAHuntsville Office of the Vice President for Research
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This article presents the assembly and signal transduction of an artificial biological membrane suspended on a thin porous silicon template. The electrochemically-fabricated porous silicon membrane has average pore diameters in the range 0.50-2 mu m and dimensions of about 200 x 200 x 3 mu m(3) and may be batch fabricated in large arrays for combinatorial testing. Biological membranes may be deposited on one or both sides of this template are fully accessible for studies using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Initial results using a two probe impedance measurement clearly show a significant impedance change between the porous silicon structure and the lipid bilayer. Furthermore, there is a clear reduction in the impedance of lipid bilayer when fused with a transmembrane ion channel protein. The photoluminescence and biodegradability properties of porous silicon in addition to lower cost and ease of fabrication make it superior over e-beam patterned silicon structures used in previous works, and thus suitable for in vivo monitoring. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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