Zeta potential is one of the tools to measure the surface charge of materials, and Alvarez et al. have developed a microchannel device to measure zeta potentials in real time for label-free sensing using immobilized receptors on microchannel surfaces. However, the challenge has been the charge interference of surface modifiers on analyte detection. Therefore, it was necessary to find the best strategy to regenerate minimal surface charge after modifying the channel with polymer films that would anchor the affinity groups for the analyte. It was demonstrated that adsorption of positively and negatively charged analytes were monitored via real time zeta potential measurements by using surface-immobilized polystyrene nanospheres, and the best discrimination of analyte binding on the nanoparticles was observed when the underlying film was a non-ionic polymer. Titanium oxide nanoparticles (TiO2) were immobilized on microchannels modified with non-ionic polymers to investigate if the surface charge of the microchannel was induced by the concomitant surface charge reactions of the TiO2 nanoparticles upon UV exposure. Analysis by XPS indicates that desorption of proteins monitored by zeta potential changes are induced by UV exposure.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:vcu.edu/oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-4298 |
| Date | 12 December 2013 |
| Creators | NOKURA, KENJI |
| Publisher | VCU Scholars Compass |
| Source Sets | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Theses and Dissertations |
| Rights | © The Author |
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