• 文献标题:   Graphene-based microfluidics for serial crystallography
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUI S, WANG YX, KOLEWE KW, SRAJER V, HENNING R, SCHIFFMAN JD, DIMITRAKOPOULOS C, PERRY SL
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  • 出版物名称:   LAB ON A CHIP
  • ISSN:   1473-0197 EI 1473-0189
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Massachusetts
  • 被引频次:   24
  • DOI:   10.1039/c6lc00451b
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Microfluidic strategies to enable the growth and subsequent serial crystallographic analysis of microcrystals have the potential to facilitate both structural characterization and dynamic structural studies of protein targets that have been resistant to single-crystal strategies. However, adapting microfluidic crystallization platforms for micro-crystallography requires a dramatic decrease in the overall device thickness. We report a robust strategy for the straightforward incorporation of single-layer graphene into ultra-thin microfluidic devices. This architecture allows for a total material thickness of only similar to 1 mu m, facilitating on-chip X-ray diffraction analysis while creating a sample environment that is stable against significant water loss over several weeks. We demonstrate excellent signal-to-noise in our X-ray diffraction measurements using a 1.5 mu s polychromatic X-ray exposure, and validate our approach via on-chip structure determination using hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) as a model system. Although this work is focused on the use of graphene for protein crystallography, we anticipate that this technology should find utility in a wide range of both X-ray and other lab on a chip applications.