PDMS as a Substrate for Lipid Bilayers

PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) is a cheap, optically clear polymer that is elastic and can be easily and quickly fabricated into a wide array of microscale and nanoscale architectures, making it a versatile substrate for biophysical experiments on cell membranes. It is easy to imagine many new experime...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1985. - 39(2023), 31 vom: 08. Aug., Seite 10843-10854
1. Verfasser: Goodchild, James A (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Walsh, Danielle L, Laurent, Harrison, Connell, Simon D
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
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520 |a PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) is a cheap, optically clear polymer that is elastic and can be easily and quickly fabricated into a wide array of microscale and nanoscale architectures, making it a versatile substrate for biophysical experiments on cell membranes. It is easy to imagine many new experiments will be devised that require a bilayer to be placed upon a substrate that is flexible or easily cast into a desired geometry, such as in lab-on-a-chip, organ-on-chip, and microfluidic applications, or for building accurate membrane models that replicate the surface structure and elasticity of the cytoskeleton. However, PDMS has its limitations, and the extent to which the behavior of membranes is affected on PDMS has not been fully explored. We use AFM and fluorescence optical microscopy to investigate the use of PDMS as a substrate for the formation and study of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs). Lipid bilayers form on plasma-treated PDMS and show free diffusion and normal phase transitions, confirming its suitability as a model bilayer substrate. However, lipid-phase separation on PDMS is severely restricted due to the pinning of domains to surface roughness, resulting in the cessation of lateral hydrodynamic flow. We show the high-resolution porous structure of PDMS and the extreme smoothing effect of oxygen plasma treatment used to hydrophilize the surface, but this is not flat enough to allow domain formation. We also observe bilayer degradation over hour timescales, which correlates with the known hydrophobic recovery of PDMS, and establish a critical water contact angle of 30°, above which bilayers degrade or not form at all. Care must be taken as incomplete surface oxidation and hydrophobic recovery result in optically invisible membrane disruption, which will also be transparent to fluorescence microscopy and lipid diffusion measurements in the early stages 
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