Award Abstract #0646966
SGER: Growing a Metallic Nanowire up to a Live Cell
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NSF Org: |
PHY
Division of Physics
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Initial Amendment Date: |
September 1, 2006 |
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Latest Amendment Date: |
September 25, 2007 |
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Award Number: |
0646966 |
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Award Instrument: |
Standard Grant |
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Program Manager: |
Krastan B. Blagoev
PHY Division of Physics
MPS Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
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Start Date: |
October 1, 2006 |
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Expires: |
March 31, 2008 (Estimated) |
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Awarded Amount to Date: |
$59995 |
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Investigator(s): |
Bret Flanders bflande@ksu.edu (Principal Investigator)
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Sponsor: |
Oklahoma State University
101 WHITEHURST HALL
STILLWATER, OK 74078 405/744-9995
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NSF Program(s): |
PHYSICS OF LIVING SYSTEMS, SCI & TECH CTRS (INTEG PTRS)
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Field Application(s): |
0000099 Other Applications NEC
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Program Reference Code(s): |
OTHR, 9237, 9183, 9150, 7246, 7237, 1767, 0000
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Program Element Code(s): |
7246, 1297
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ABSTRACT
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Directed electrochemical nanowire growth is a new technique that provides a way to grow crystalline, metallic nanowires from macroscopic electrodes to targeted sites in the interelectrode region. By growing multiple wires up to a set of targeted sites on single live cells, this technique could potentially be used to deliver complex electrical stimuli to the cells. However, realizing this application requires the following: it must be possible to induce this wire-growth process in a good cell culturing medium, and it is essential that this growth-process does not compromise the viability of the cell. The objective of this project is to develop methodology for growing a metallic nanowire up to a biological cell without loss of cell viability. This objective will be accomplished via the following specific tasks: (1) Design a medium that both supports the growth of gold wires and contains the full complement of solutes present in cell culture tested-media; and (2) Refine this customized medium to enable gold wire growth up to a live cell. To accomplish these tasks, this team will employ the following methods: directed electrochemical nanowire growth; culturing of arterial smooth muscle cells; epi-fluorescence, bright-field, and transmission electron microscopies; biochemical viability assays; and cleanroom lithography.
The Flanders Group regularly works to enhance the education of high school students who attend the Oklahoma School for Science and Mathematics in Oklahoma City. Graduate students in the Flanders Group perform a series of lab demonstrations, such as the directed assembly of micron-sized wires. These demonstrations underscore the notion that physics is an experimental science that relies on observations.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
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Ozturk B; Flanders BN; Grischkowsky DR; Mishima TD.
"Single-step growth and low resistance interconnecting of gold nanowires,"
Nanotechnology,
v.18,
2007,
p. 175707.
Ozturk B; Talukdar I; Flanders BN.
"Directed growth of diameter-tunable nanowires,"
Nanotechnology,
v.18,
2007,
p. 365302.
(Showing: 1 - 2 of 2).
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