Ryan C Pearce, Justin G Railsback, Bryan D Anderson, Mehmet F Sarac, Timothy E McKnight, Joseph B Tracy, Anatoli V Melechko
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State Universit y, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695, United States United States.
ACS applied materials & interfaces 2013 FebVertically aligned carbon nanofibers (VACNFs) are synthesized on Al 3003 alloy substrates by direct current plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Chemically synthesized Ni nanoparticles were used as the catalyst for growth. The Si-containing coating (SiN(x)) typically created when VACNFs are grown on silicon was produced by adding Si microparticles prior to growth. The fiber arrays were transferred to PDMS by spin coating a layer on the grown substrates, curing the PDMS, and etching away the Al in KOH. The fiber arrays contain many fibers over 15 μm (long enough to protrude from the PDMS film and penetrate cell membranes) and SiN(x) coatings as observed by SEM, EDX, and fluorescence microscopy. The free-standing array in PDMS was loaded with pVENUS-C1 plasmid and human brain microcapillary endothelial (HBMEC) cells and was successfully impalefected.
Ryan C Pearce, Justin G Railsback, Bryan D Anderson, Mehmet F Sarac, Timothy E McKnight, Joseph B Tracy, Anatoli V Melechko. Transfer of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers to polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) while maintaining their alignment and impalefection functionality. ACS applied materials & interfaces. 2013 Feb;5(3):878-82
PMID: 23281833
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