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ArticleNature nanotechnology2020

Optomechanical detection of vibration modes of a single bacterium.

Eduardo Gil-Santos, Jose J Ruz, Oscar Malvar, Ivan Favero, Aristide Lemaître, Priscila M Kosaka, Sergio García-López, Montserrat Calleja, Javier Tamayo

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Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 35 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 137 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Eduardo Gil-SantosBionanomechanics Lab, Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología, IMN-CNM (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. eduardo.gil@csic.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7100-934X
Jose J RuzBionanomechanics Lab, Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología, IMN-CNM (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Oscar MalvarBionanomechanics Lab, Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología, IMN-CNM (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9860-0634
Ivan FaveroMatériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France.
Aristide LemaîtreCentre de Nanosciences et Nanotechnologies, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1892-9726
Priscila M KosakaBionanomechanics Lab, Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología, IMN-CNM (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Sergio García-LópezBionanomechanics Lab, Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología, IMN-CNM (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Montserrat CallejaBionanomechanics Lab, Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología, IMN-CNM (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Javier TamayoBionanomechanics Lab, Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología, IMN-CNM (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. jtamayo@imm.cnm.csic.es.
Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology · ESCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Low-frequency vibration modes of biological particles, such as proteins, viruses and bacteria, involve coherent collective vibrations at frequencies in the terahertz and gigahertz domains. These vibration modes carry information on their structure and mechanical properties, which are good indicators of their biological state. In this work, we harnessed a particular regime in the physics of coupled mechanical resonators to directly measure these low-frequency mechanical resonances of a single bacterium. We deposit the bacterium on the surface of an ultrahigh frequency optomechanical disk resonator in ambient conditions. The vibration modes of the disk and bacterium hybridize when their associated frequencies are similar. We developed a general theoretical framework to describe this coupling, which allows us to retrieve the eigenfrequencies and mechanical loss of the bacterium low-frequency vibration modes (quality factor). Additionally, we analysed the effect of hydration on these vibrational modes. This work demonstrates that ultrahigh frequency optomechanical resonators can be used for vibrational spectrometry with the unique capability to obtain information on single biological entities.

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Biosensing TechniquesSingle-Cell AnalysisAlgorithmsBiomechanical PhenomenaStaphylococcus epidermidisStochastic ProcessesVibrationWaterWater

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PMID32284570
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