Oligodeoxyribonucleotide association with single-walled carbon nanotubes studied by SPM |
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Authors: | Lahiji Roya R Dolash Bridget D Bergstrom Donald E Reifenberger Ronald |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physics, and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. rlahiji@purdue.edu |
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Abstract: | Studies have been performed on both as-received and chemically oxidized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) grown by two different growth methods to better understand the preferential association of the oligodeoxyribonucleotide T30 (ODN) with SWCNTs. Samples of T30 ODN:SWCNT were examined under ambient conditions using non-contact scanning probe microscope (SPM) techniques. The resulting images show different morphologies ranging from tangled networks of SWCNTs to individual, well-dispersed isolated SWCNTs as the sonication time is increased. SPM images of well-dispersed, as-received SWCNTs reveal isolated features that are 1.4 to 2.8 nm higher than the bare SWCNT itself. X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) confirmed these features to be T30 ODN in nature. Chemically oxidizing the SWCNTs before sonication is found to be an effective way to increase the number of T30 ODN features. |
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Keywords: | atomic force microscopy carbon nanotubes DNA hybrid materials scanning probe microscopy |
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