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ArticleApplied physics letters2010

Ambient molecular water accumulation on silica surfaces detected by a reflectance interference optical balance.

Xuefeng Wang, Ming Zhao, David D Nolte

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Article in Applied physics letters, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 authors.

Xuefeng WangDepartment of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
Ming Zhao
David D Nolte

Funding

Multiplexed Assays on the BioCD for Acute Lymphocytic LeukemiaR21CA125336 · NCI · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI NOLTE, DAVID D · 2008 to 2009
$392k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA125336
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Water is a persistent background in virtually all biosensors, yet is difficult to quantify. We apply an interferometric optical balance to measure water film accumulation from air onto several types of prepared silica surfaces. The optical balance uses in-line common-path interferometry with balanced quadratures to measure the real-time accumulation of molecular films. The accumulated water thickness is sensitive to ambient conditions, with thicknesses that vary from picometers up to nanometers, even on hydrophobic silanized surfaces. These results demonstrate that water adsorption contributes an excess signal in dry label-free protein microarray optical biosensors and presents a fundamental limit to assay sensitivity.

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PMID21124727
PMCPMC2994929

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