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Quartz balance DNA sensor by Claudio Nicolini; Victor Erokhin; Paolo Facci; S. Guerzoni; Andrea Ross; Pavel Paschkevitsch is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Quartz balance DNA sensor about?

Single-strand DNA-containing thin films were deposited onto quartz oscillators by the Langmuir-Blodgett technique towards the realization of a device capable of sensing the presence of the complementary DNA sequences which hybridize with the immobilized ones. DNA, once complexed with aliphatic amines, appears as a monolayer in a single-stranded form by X-ray small angle scattering. A quartz nanobalance is then utilized to monitor mass increment related to specific hybridization with a complementary DNA probe. The crystal quartz nanobalance, capable of high sensitivity, indeed appears capable of obtaining a prototype of a device capable of sensing the occurrence of particular genes or sequences in the sample under investigation. The validity of the nanogravimetric assay was confirmed by independent fluorescence measurements utilizing DAPI and a CCD camera.

Author

Claudio Nicolini; Victor Erokhin; Paolo Facci; S. Guerzoni; Andrea Ross; Pavel Paschkevitsch

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0956-5663)

Published

1997

Language

EN