Publication Date
2016
Journal or Book Title
Lab on a Chip
Abstract
Microfluidic strategies to enable the growth and subsequent serial crystallographic analysis of micro-crystals have the potential to facilitate both structural characterization and dynamic structural studies of protein targets that have been resistant to single-crystal strategies. However, adapting microfluidic crystallization platforms for micro-crystallography requires a dramatic decrease in the overall device thickness. We report a robust strategy for the straightforward incorporation of single-layer graphene into ultra-thin microfluidic devices. This architecture allows for a total material thickness of only ∼1 μm, facilitating on-chip X-ray diffraction analysis while creating a sample environment that is stable against significant water loss over several weeks. We demonstrate excellent signal-to-noise in our X-ray diffraction measurements using a 1.5 μs polychromatic X-ray exposure, and validate our approach via on-chip structure determination using hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) as a model system. Although this work is focused on the use of graphene for protein crystallography, we anticipate that this technology should find utility in a wide range of both X-ray and other lab on a chip applications.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6LC00451B
Issue
16
Recommended Citation
Sui, Shuo; Wang, Yuxi; Kolewe, Kristopher W.; Srajer, Vukica; Henning, Robert; Schiffman, Jessica D.; Dimitrakopoulos, Christos; and Perry, Sarah L., "Graphene-Based Microfluidics for Serial Crystallography" (2016). Lab on a Chip. 834.
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6LC00451B
Comments
The published version may be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6LC00451B