Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 4151-4163Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn400527u
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PEGylated gold nanoparticles; electrochemical microscopy; SECM; electrochemical-atomic force microscopy; AFM-SECM; mediator-tethered/electrochemical-atomic force microscopy; Mt/AFM-SECM
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- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-09-PIRI-0005]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-09-PIRI-0005] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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Electrochemical-atomic force microscopy (AFM-SECM) was used to simultaneously probe the physical and electrochemical properties of individual similar to 20 nm sized gold nanoparticles functionalized by redox-labeled PEG chains. The redox PEGylated nanoparticles were assembled onto a gold electrode surface, forming a random nanoarray, and interrogated in situ by a combined AFM-SECM nanoelectrode probe. We show that, in this so-called mediator-tethered (Mt) mode, AFM-SECM affords the nanometer resolution required for resolving the position of individual nanoparticles and measuring their size, while simultaneously electrochemically directly contacting the redox-PEG chains they bear. The dual measurement of the size and current response of single nanoparticles uniquely allows the statistical distribution in grafting density of PEG on the nanoparticles to be determined and correlated to the nanoparticle diameter. Moreover, because of its high spatial resolution, Mt/AFM-SECM allows visualizing' simultaneously but independently the PEG corona and the gold core of individual nanoparticles. Beyond demonstrating the achievement of single-nanoparticle resolution using an electrochemical microscopy technique, the results reported here also pave the way toward using Mt/AFM-SECM for imaging nano-objects bearing any kind of suitably redox-labeled (bio)macromolecules.
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