Electrical pulse - mediated enhanced delivery of silver nanoparticles into living suspension cells for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Abstract

Electrical pulse‐mediated enhanced silver nanoparticles delivery is a much better method for intracellular surfaceenhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) measurements of suspension cells. Robust and high‐quality SERS spectra of living suspension cells were obtained based on an electroporationSERS method, which can overcomes the shortcoming of nonuniform distribution of silver nanoparticles localized in the cell cytoplasm after electroporation and reduces the amount variance of silver nanoparticles delivered into different cells. The electroporation parameters include three 150 V (375 V/cm) electric pulses of 1, 5, and 5 ms durations respectively. Our results indicate that considerable amount of silver nanoparticles can be rapidly delivered into the human promyelocytic leukemia HL60 cells, and the satisfied SERS spectra were obtained while the viability of the treated cells was highly maintained (91.7%). The electroporation‐SERS method offers great potential approach in delivering silver nanoparticles into living suspension cells, which is useful for widely biomedical applications including the real‐time intracellular SERS analysis of living cells. (© 2012 by Astro Ltd., Published exclusively by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA) (© 2011 by Astro Ltd., Published exclusively by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

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