• 文献标题:   Graphene Electric Field Sensor Enables Single Shot Label-Free Imaging of Bioelectric Potentials
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BALCH HB, MCGUIRE AF, HORNG J, TSAI HZ, QI KK, DUH YS, FORRESTER PR, CROMMIE MF, CUI BX, WANG F
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, photonic, bioelectricity, electrophysiology, voltage sensing imaging, microscopy
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00543 EA JUN 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

The measurement of electrical activity across systems of excitable cells underlies current progress in neuroscience, cardiac pharmacol-ogy, and neurotechnology. However, bioelectricity spans orders of magnitude in intensity, space, and time, posing substantial technological challenges. The development of methods permitting network-scale recordings with high spatial resolution remains key to studies of electrogenic cells, emergent networks, and bioelectric computation. Here, we demonstrate single-shot and label-free imaging of extracellular potentials with high resolution across a wide field-of-view. The critically coupled waveguide-amplified graphene electric field (CAGE) sensor leverages the field-sensitive optical transitions in graphene to convert electric potentials into the optical regime. As a proof-of-concept, we use the CAGE sensor to detect native electrical activity from cardiac action potentials with tens-of-microns resolution, simultaneously map the propagation of these potentials at tissue-scale, and monitor their modification by pharmacological agents. This platform is robust, scalable, and compatible with existing microscopy techniques for multimodal correlative imaging.