Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 2, Issue 9, Pages 1885-1895Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn800285p
Keywords
biomolecular interactions; nucleic acids hybridization; RNA-protein interactions; digital versatile disk; phase-change materials; blood coagulation proteins; human influenza virus; aptamers
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A spinning-disk biosensor utilizing optical interference of reflected light from a multilayered structure, consisting of dielectric, metal, and optical phase-change thin films, is shown to have the potential to monitor various interactions on its surface. We refer to this platform as a BioDVD, since it utilizes the optical system of a digital versatile disk (DVD) to measure changes in reflected light intensity. Here, we demonstrated that nucleic acid hybridization and RNA-protein interactions can be analyzed efficiently, in a label-free environment, by measuring the reflected light intensity using a DVD-like mechanism. Moreover, our studies revealed that the detection sensitivity for the interactions on the BioDVD can be altered by shifting the state of the phase-change materials, where the amorphous state can be used for analysis and another state (crystalline) can be used both for recording information and selectively masking areas of the disk.
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