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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

Super-resolving particle diffusion heterogeneity in porous hydrogels via high-speed 3D active-feedback single-particle tracking microscopy.

Yuxin Lin, Haoting Lin, Kevin D Welsher

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Yuxin LinDepartment of Chemistry, Duke University, 124 Science Dr., Durham, NC 27708, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1758-6215
Haoting LinDepartment of Chemistry, Duke University, 124 Science Dr., Durham, NC 27708, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-8075-7831
Kevin D WelsherDepartment of Chemistry, Duke University, 124 Science Dr., Durham, NC 27708, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3180-279X

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Unraveling the Viral Infection Pathway with Virus-locked ObservationR35GM124868 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Kevin Welsher · 2017 to 2026
$3.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM124868
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanoparticle diffusion in 3D porous structures is critical to understanding natural and synthetic systems but remains underexplored due to limitations in traditional microscopy methods. Here, we use 3D Single-Molecule Active-feedback Real-time Tracking (3D-SMART) microscopy to resolve nanoparticle dynamics in agarose gels with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution. We highlight 'hopping diffusion', where particles intermittently escape confinement pockets, providing insights into hydrogel microstructure. Long, highly sampled trajectories enable extraction of kinetic parameters, confinement sizes, and thermodynamic barriers. This study demonstrates 3D-SMART's ability to probe particle-environment interactions at super-resolution (~10 nm in XY and ~30 nm in Z) in 3D, offering new perspectives on nanoparticle diffusion and the structural dynamics of porous materials, with implications for drug delivery, material science, and biological systems.

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active-feedback trackinghopping diffusionmicrorheologyreal-time single particle trackingthree-dimensional microscopy

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PMID40161603
PMCPMC11952504

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