• 文献标题:   Real-time subcellular imaging based on graphene biosensors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUN LX, ZHANG YQ, WANG YJ, YANG Y, ZHANG CL, WENG XY, ZHU SW, YUAN XC
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  • 出版物名称:   NANOSCALE
  • ISSN:   2040-3364 EI 2040-3372
  • 通讯作者地址:   Nankai Univ
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1039/c7nr07479d
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Non-invasive living cell microscopy in real time is essential for a wide variety of biomedical research. Here, we present a subcellular refractive index imaging technique for living cells based on a graphene biosensor system. Owing to the optical reflectivity differences of graphene to s-and p-polarizations, a 45 degrees generalized-cylindrical-vector-polarized laser beam is employed to demodulate the reflected cylindrical vector beam for differential detecting. Benefitting from the vector beam-enabled common-path graphene biosensor, the imaging spatial resolution and refractive index sensitivity are noticeably improved. Subcellular refractive index mapping of live human colonic cancer cells is perfectly achieved without inducing any cell damage. Furthermore, real-time monitoring of an individual cell is also performed with the disassembly of the cell nucleolus clearly observed. This technique would be a promising tool for the study of living cell morphology, kinetics, and pathology, and for other biomedical research.