DocumentCode
1876898
Title
Cell Adhesions on Nanoturf Surfaces
Author
Choi, Chang-Hwan ; Hagvall, Sepideh H. ; Dunn, James C Y ; Wu, Benjamin M. ; Kim, Chang-Jin
Author_Institution
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Dept., University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
fYear
2006
fDate
2006
Firstpage
402
Lastpage
405
Abstract
We report on various aspects of cell adhesion of fibrolasts over densely-populated sharp-tip nano-post structures, which we term “ NanoTurf”. The ability to control the size, shape, and aspect ratio of the nanostructures enabled the study on the effect of surface three-dimensionality of the cell-matrix adhesion in detail. To our best knowledge, this is the first systematic investigation of the nanometric three-dimensional surface topography effect on cell adhesions.
Keywords
Adhesives; Atomic force microscopy; Fibroblasts; Interference; Lithography; Nanostructures; Shape control; Silicon; Surface morphology; Surface topography;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, 2006. MEMS 2006 Istanbul. 19th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Istanbul, Turkey
ISSN
1084-6999
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9475-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MEMSYS.2006.1627821
Filename
1627821
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