A universal law for cell uptake of one-dimensional nanomaterials.

Understanding cell interaction with one-dimensional nanomaterials, including nanotubes, nanowires, nanofibers, filamentous bacteria, and certain nanoparticle chains, has fundamental importance to many applications such as biomedical diagnostics, therapeutics, and nanotoxicity. Here we show that cell uptake of one-dimensional nanomaterials via receptor-mediated endocytosis is dominated by a single dimensionless parameter that scales with the membrane tension and radius of the nanomaterial and inversely with the membrane bending stiffness. It is shown that as cell membrane internalizes one-dimensional nanomaterials the uptake follows a near-perpendicular entry mode at small membrane tension but it switches to a near-parallel interaction mode at large membrane tension.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Nano letters (Print)

• Publication date

  2014-01-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Physics

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  DOI 10.1021/nl404727mPMID 24459994
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