Size effects on diffusion processes within agarose gels.

Abstract:

:To investigate diffusion processes in agarose gel, nanoparticles with sizes in the range between 1 and 140 nm have been tested by means of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Understanding the diffusion properties in agarose gels is interesting, because such gels are good models for microbial biofilms and cells cytoplasm. The fluorescence correlation spectroscopy technique is very useful for such investigations due to its high sensitivity and selectivity, its excellent spatial resolution compared to the pore size of the gel, and its ability to probe a wide range of sizes of diffusing nanoparticles. The largest hydrodynamic radius (R(c)) of trapped particles that displayed local mobility was estimated to be 70 nm for a 1.5% agarose gel. The results showed that diffusion of particles in agarose gel is anomalous, with a diverging fractal dimension of diffusion when the large particles become entrapped in the pores of the gel. The latter situation occurs when the reduced size (R(A)/R(c)) of the diffusing particle, A, is >0.4. Variations of the fractal exponent of diffusion (d(w)) with the reduced particle size were in agreement with three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations in porous media. Nonetheless, a systematic offset of d(w) was observed in real systems and was attributed to weak nonelastic interactions between the diffusing particles and polymer fibers, which was not considered in the Monte Carlo simulations.

journal_name

Biophys J

journal_title

Biophysical journal

authors

Fatin-Rouge N,Starchev K,Buffle J

doi

10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74325-8

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-05-01 00:00:00

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2710-9

issue

5

eissn

0006-3495

issn

1542-0086

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S0006-3495(04)74325-8

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86

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