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电弧法自制碳纳米管原子力显微镜针尖,对其末端进行功能化修饰,然后测量配体-受体之间的作用力。运用没有功能化修饰的碳纳米管针尖与修饰有亲和素分子的基底进行接触测量时,没有粘滞力出现;而运用末端修饰生物素分子的碳纳米管针尖测量时,有粘滞力产生。功能化的碳纳米管针尖直接测得的粘滞力均大约200pN,此值符合一对配体生物素和受体亲和素之间的作用力。这一结果很难用传统的针尖获得,功能化修饰的碳纳米管针尖能够克服传统针尖在力测量中的局限,在生物学和化学领域有着广泛的应用前景。 相似文献
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失效原子力显微镜硅针尖再生 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
原子力显微镜的传统商品硅针尖在使用过程中极易因磨损而失效,本文研究了一种在实验室条件下简易可行的回收利用失效硅针尖的方法。在原子力显微镜的敲击模式下使用曲率半径大于100 nm的失效硅针尖对生长单壁碳纳米管的样品表面进行扫描,把样品表面的单壁碳纳米管管束粘接到硅针尖上,可制得直径在5~20 nm的碳纳米管针尖。实验对碳纳米管针尖和新的商品硅针尖进行了成像对比,所制备的碳纳米管针尖不仅在成像分辨率而且在成像稳定性上都优于新的商品硅针尖。 相似文献
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该文利用一种基于原子力显微镜(AFM)抬高模式(Lift mode)的"逐线反馈纳米操纵"技术成功地进行了DNA单分子水平上的切割、拾取及连接酶分子的传递,系统地完成了DNA的分子手术。在切割和拾取过程中,以PBR322/Pst I DNA为研究对象,进行了单分子水平上的切割,实验发现由于DNA分子本身弹性,切割过程极易出现切割端变粗的现象。在分子传递过程中,分别以T4 DNA连接酶和小牛胸腺组蛋白分子为研究对象,实现针尖和基底表面之间的分子传递。同时通过控制针尖运动成功获得连接酶分子点阵排列及小牛胸腺组蛋白方块状纳米结构。结果表明利用此操纵方法可以获得很高的精确度,切割DNA时的空间精确度小于5 nm。系列单分子水平上的分子手术的整合为实现单分子水平上生化反应,甚至构造智能机器提供了可能。 相似文献
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综述了液晶冠醚、碳纳米管、水溶性杯芳烃在分析化学中应用的新进展。介绍了液晶冠醚在离子传输、分子识别、色谱分析、LB膜等各方面的应用;讨论了碳纳米管在扫描显微镜探针针尖、气体传感器、化学修饰电极和化学分离与检测方面的应用,以及水溶性杯芳烃在光度法、电化学、色谱分离方面的应用。 相似文献
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Martin Munz Jae‐Ho Kim Oliver Krause Debdulal Roy 《Surface and interface analysis : SIA》2011,43(11):1382-1391
Accurate knowledge of the nanoroughness of surfaces is crucial for many applications related to optics, electronics or tribology. Although atomic force microscopy (AFM) can image surfaces with a nanometre spatial resolution, the finite size of standard tips means that pores, pits or grooves with dimensions similar to or smaller than the tip apex will not be accurately imaged. Furthermore, standard tips are made of silicon or silicon nitride and are prone to wear. Mitigation may arise from the availability of AFM tips with a carbon nanotube (CNT) at their foremost end. This study compares the imaging performance of ultrasharp Si tips, CNT AFM tips prepared by a Langmuir‐Blodgett (LB) technique, and of CNT AFM tips prepared by a chemical vapour deposition (CVD) technique. The free length of the CNT AFM tips is in the range 80–200 and 600–750 nm, respectively. A polycrystalline niobium film surface is imaged that shows nanoroughness. The measurements demonstrate that CNT AFM tips allow excellent imaging if the scan parameters are adjusted very carefully. Nevertheless, in some cases distortions are found. The measured average grain diameter is 19.9 ± 3.6 nm in the case of a CNT AFM tip made by the LB technique, and 18.0 ± 3.3 nm in the case of a CNT AFM tip made by CVD. In addition to cross‐sections of topography images, also the power spectral density (PSD) is analyzed. An empirical approach for the readout of the characteristic length is suggested that involves the first derivative of the decadic logarithm of the PSD. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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The regrowth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in a second growth stage after a first growth stage has been completely stopped has been found to be strongly related to the carbon capping present on their catalyst particles. It is shown that the undesirable carbon capping can be prevented from forming or removed and the nanotube growth can be rejuvenated by either control of plasma processing conditions during chemical vapor deposition or by inserting a room-temperature sputter etching process. The ability to cause sequential growth stages to take place in different directions makes it possible for us to clearly compare the occurrence and extent of CNT regrowth. Such a CNT regrowth process and understanding of controlling parameters can enable the creation of new nanowire configurations that could potentially be used for applications such as sharply bending nanointerconnections, nanosprings, bent AFM nanoprobes, or nanobarcodes. 相似文献
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Influence of the carbon nanotube probe tilt angle on the effective probe stiffness and image quality in tapping-mode atomic force microscopy 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Previous studies have shown that when using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as tapping-mode AFM probes, their tilt angle with respect to vertical (denoted phi) must be close to 0 degrees to obtain high-quality images and that very poor images are obtained for phi > 30 degrees . Here we present a quantitative theoretical investigation of the effect of phi on tapping-mode AFM imaging for single-wall and multiwall nanotube (SWNT and MWNT, respectively) probes of diameters 3.4-5.5 nm and aspect ratio 7.5, which have been found ideal for imaging via TEM. Using molecular and classical dynamics, we investigate the effect of phi on CNT probe stiffness (quantified through the maximum gradient of the tip-sample interaction force) and show that it decreases linearly with increasing phi, becoming negligible at around phi approximately 40 degrees , thus confirming the conclusions of previous studies. We find that MWNT probe stiffness is proportional to the number of walls, but that the difference in stiffness between SWNTs and MWNTs also decreases linearly with increasing phi and becomes negligible at around phi approximately 40 degrees . The simulated cross-sectional scans of a sample SWNT using two different values of phi show that the image can be distorted and shifted laterally when phi is large, in some cases giving measured heights appreciably greater than the sample dimensions. We show analytically that the tip-sample forces that occur during imaging can be significantly lower when CNT probes are used instead of conventional probes, even in the absence of buckling, and that they can be further reduced by increasing phi. On the basis of this result, we propose the design of free-standing kinked probes for the characterization of sensitive samples, whereby the probe approaches the sample at a vertical orientation and possesses a tilted section that regulates the tip-sample interaction forces. 相似文献
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Tailoring wettability change on aligned and patterned carbon nanotube films for selective assembly 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Li P Lim X Zhu Y Yu T Ong CK Shen Z Wee AT Sow CH 《The journal of physical chemistry. B》2007,111(7):1672-1678
The effects of oxygen reactive ion etching (RIE) on the surface wettability of aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) films have been systematically investigated. It was found that 3 s of RIE treatment could change the surface of CNT films from hydrophobic to more hydrophilic. The degree of modification in the surface wettability of the film could be controlled by the flow rate of O2 gas during the RIE process. It is proposed that such a surface hydrophobicity change is related to the opened structure and functionalized tip of as-treated CNTs by oxygen reactive ions. More importantly, after the RIE treatment, focused laser pruning was utilized to trim the surface layer of treated CNTs and revert them back to a hydrophobic surface. Combined with the laser pruning technique and O2 RIE treatment, CNT templates with interlaced wettability surfaces in a stripe pattern have been fabricated. It has been demonstrated that this interlaced and structured wettability pattern can be used to selectively assemble microspheres or quantum dots on the aligned CNT films with desired patterns. 相似文献
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Huaping Liu Guoan Cheng Ruiting Zheng Yong Zhao Changlin Liang 《Journal of molecular catalysis. A, Chemical》2005,230(1-2):17-22
The Ni/CNT catalyst was fabricated by directly dipping carbon nanotube precursors refluxed in 4 M of nitric acid into Ni electroless plating bath, and used to synthesize new carbon nanotubes. The experimental results indicate that the duration of acid-treatment of carbon nanotubes precursors exerts a great influence on the catalysis of Ni/CNT in the synthesis of carbon nanotubes and hence the structures of the new carbon nanotubes. When the carbon nanotubes precursors were refluxed for 0.5 h in 4 M of nitric acid, bamboo-shaped carbon nanotubes (BSCNT) or Y junction carbon nanotubes in the carbon products were obtained. As the duration of acid-treatment of carbon nanotubes precursors increased to 6 h, the as-prepared Ni/CNT displayed higher activity, and the carbon nanotube products were high pure without any Y junction structure or any separation layers in hollow. 相似文献
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This paper utilizes molecular-dynamics simulations to investigate the mechanical characteristics of a suspended (10, 10) single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) during atomic force microscopy (AFM) nanoindentation at different temperatures. Spontaneous topological transition of the Stone-Wales (SW) defects is clearly observed in the indentation process. The present results indicate that under AFM-bending deformation, the mechanical properties of the SWCNT, e.g., the bending strength, are dependent on the wrapping angle. In addition, it is also found that the radial dependence of the reduced formation energy of the SW defects is reasonably insensitive only for the small tubes. However, for tube diameters greater than 2.4 nm [corresponding to the (18, 18) CNT], the SW defects tend to be more radius sensitive. The results indicate that the bending strength decreases significantly with increasing temperature. This study also investigates the variation in the mechanical properties of the nanotube with the density of C60 encapsulated within the nanotube at various temperatures. It is found that, at lower temperatures, the bending strength of the C60-filled nanotube increases with C60 density. However, the reverse tendency is observed at higher temperatures. Finally, the "sharpest tip" phenomena between the probe and the tube wall and the elastic recovery of the nanotube during the retraction process are also investigated. 相似文献
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The ability to detect biological analytes in a rapid, sensitive, operationally simple, and cost-effective manner will impact human health and safety. Hybrid biocatalyzed-carbon nanotube (CNT) nanowire-based detection methods offer a highly sensitive and specific platform for the fabrication of simple and effective conductometric devices. Here, we report a conductivity-based DNA detection method utilizing carbon nanotube-DNA nanowire devices and oligonucleotide-functionalized enzyme probes. Key to our sensor design is a DNA-linked-CNT wire motif, which forms a network of interrupted carbon nanotube wires connecting two electrodes. Sensing occurs at the DNA junctions linking CNTs, followed by amplification using enzymatic metalization leading to a conductimetric response. The DNA analyte detection limit is 10 fM with the ability to discriminate single, double, and triple base pair mismatches. DNA-CNT nanowires and device sensing gaps were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and confocal Raman microscopy, supporting the enhanced conductometric response resulting from nanowire metallization. 相似文献
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Atomic force microscopy studies of DNA-wrapped carbon nanotube structure and binding to quantum dots
Campbell JF Tessmer I Thorp HH Erie DA 《Journal of the American Chemical Society》2008,130(32):10648-10655
Single-stranded DNA is an effective noncovalent dispersant for individual single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in aqueous solution, forming a CNT-DNA hybrid material that has advantages for CNT separations and applications. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) reveals a regular pattern on the surface of CNT-DNA. We found this pattern to be independent of the length and sequence of the wrapping DNA, yet different from the structures observed for CNTs dispersed with sodium dodecyl sulfate in the absence of DNA. We wrapped CNTs with thiol-modified DNA to form stable conjugates of CNT-DNA and core/shell CdSe/ZnS quantum dots; AFM imaging of these conjugates identified for the first time the location of DNA on the CNT-DNA nanomaterial. Our results suggest that the AFM pattern of CNT-DNA is formed by helical turns (approximately 14-nm pitch) of wrapped DNA strands that are closely arranged end-to-end in a single layer along the CNT. This work demonstrates the useful functionalization of CNTs with quantum dots in a manner that avoids direct, destructive modification of the CNT surface and suggests nearly complete surface coverage of the nanotubes with DNA. 相似文献