Characterization Of The Local Electrical Environment In An Electrically-guided Protein Patterning System Incorporating Antifouling Self-assembled Monolayer
dc.contributor.advisor | Hwang, Wonmuk | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Teizer, Winfried | |
dc.creator | Park, Jinseon | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-21T22:03:29Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-22T07:13:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-10-21T22:03:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-10-22T07:13:48Z | |
dc.date.created | 2010-08 | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-10-21 | |
dc.date.submitted | August 2010 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8520 | |
dc.description.abstract | In earlier research in our lab, the manipulation of microtubules on gold patterned silicon wafers was achieved by E-beam lithography, Poly (ethylene glycol) self assembled monolayers (PEG-SAMs) and electrophoresis. To develop a technique for delicate single microtubule manipulation, further studies need to be done on PEG-SAMs and electrophoresis. As a foundation of this goal, we examined the electric field in an aqueous solution between two planar electrodes and the compatibility of the antifouling property of PEG-SAMs with the electric field. For this purpose, the distribution of microbeads was analyzed using a Boltzmann distribution. The amount of adsorbed microtubules on a PEG-SAM was examined to test the compatibility of the antifouling property of a PEG-SAM with concomitant exposure to electric field. It is shown that the product of the electric field and the effective charge of the microbead does not have a linear relation with the applied electric potential but an exponentially increasing function with respect to the potential. The antifouling property of the PEG-SAM was not retained after an exposure to the electric field. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.subject | Protein patterning | en |
dc.subject | Electrophoresis | en |
dc.subject | Electrostatic screening | en |
dc.subject | Counterion | en |
dc.subject | Self assembled monolayer | en |
dc.subject | Antifouling | en |
dc.title | Characterization Of The Local Electrical Environment In An Electrically-guided Protein Patterning System Incorporating Antifouling Self-assembled Monolayer | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.department | Physics and Astronomy | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Physics | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
thesis.degree.name | Master of Science | en |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Agnolet, Glenn | |
dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
dc.type.material | text | en |
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