Surface landing of microtubule nanotracks influenced by lithographically patterned channels | Zendy

ChihTing Lin | Zendy; MingTse Kao | Zendy; Edgar Meyhöfer | Zendy; Katsuo Kurabayashi | Zendy

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Surface landing of microtubule nanotracks influenced by lithographically patterned channels

Author(s) -

ChihTing Lin,

MingTse Kao,

Edgar Meyhöfer,

Katsuo Kurabayashi

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

applied physics letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182

H-Index - 442

eISSN - 1077-3118

pISSN - 0003-6951

DOI - 10.1063/1.3224194

Subject(s) - microtubule , nanobiotechnology , materials science , channel (broadcasting) , nanotechnology , nanolithography , nanoscopic scale , kinesin , computer science , fabrication , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , computer network , alternative medicine , pathology , nanoparticle

Microtubules, which serve as cellular structural components in nature, can be placed within a lithographically patterned channel as engineered nanoscale tracks for bionanotechnology applications. We study the landing behavior of microtubules upon their diffusion onto a kinesin-coated glass surface in the presence of the channel. The influence of channel geometry on the landing rate of microtubules is experimentally characterized using channels with varying width. Additionally, we develop a theoretical model to quantitatively analyze our data by accounting for geometrical constraints due to both the width and height of the channels against the diffusion of the landing microtubules.

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