TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantitative Visualization of Nanoscale Ion Transport
AU - Zhou, Lushan
AU - Gong, Yongfeng
AU - Hou, Jianghui
AU - Baker, Lane A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2017/12/19
Y1 - 2017/12/19
N2 - Understanding ion transport properties at various interfaces, especially at small length scales, is critical in advancing our knowledge of membrane materials and cell biology. Recently, we described potentiometric-scanning ion conductance microscopy (P-SICM) for ion-conductance measurement in polymer membranes and epithelial cell monolayers at discrete points in a sample. Here, we combine hopping mode techniques with P-SICM to allow simultaneous nanometer-scale conductance and topography mapping. First validated with standard synthetic membranes and then demonstrated in living epithelial cell monolayers under physiological conditions, this new method allows direct visualization of heterogeneous ion transport of biological samples for the first time. These advances provide a noncontact local probe, require no labeling, and present a new tool for quantifying intrinsic transport properties of a variety of biological samples.
AB - Understanding ion transport properties at various interfaces, especially at small length scales, is critical in advancing our knowledge of membrane materials and cell biology. Recently, we described potentiometric-scanning ion conductance microscopy (P-SICM) for ion-conductance measurement in polymer membranes and epithelial cell monolayers at discrete points in a sample. Here, we combine hopping mode techniques with P-SICM to allow simultaneous nanometer-scale conductance and topography mapping. First validated with standard synthetic membranes and then demonstrated in living epithelial cell monolayers under physiological conditions, this new method allows direct visualization of heterogeneous ion transport of biological samples for the first time. These advances provide a noncontact local probe, require no labeling, and present a new tool for quantifying intrinsic transport properties of a variety of biological samples.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b04139
DO - 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b04139
M3 - Article
C2 - 29164870
AN - SCOPUS:85038860489
SN - 0003-2700
VL - 89
SP - 13603
EP - 13609
JO - Analytical Chemistry
JF - Analytical Chemistry
IS - 24
ER -