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Appl Phys Lett. 2011 Sep 05;99(10):103702-1037023. doi: 10.1063/1.3635783. Epub 2011 Sep 08.

Atomic force microscopy of electrospun organic-inorganic lipid nanofibers.

Applied physics letters

Jinhong Zhang, Celine Cohn, Weiguo Qiu, Zhengbao Zha, Zhifei Dai, Xiaoyi Wu

PMID: 21990942 PMCID: PMC3189251 DOI: 10.1063/1.3635783

Abstract

An organic-inorganic hybridization strategy has been proposed to synthesize polymerizable lipid-based materials for the creation of highly stable lipid-mimetic nanostructures. We employ atomic force microscopy (AFM) to analyze the surface morphology and mechanical property of electrospun cholesteryl-succinyl silane (CSS) nanofibers. The AFM nanoindentation of the CSS nanofibers reveals elastic moduli of 55.3 ± 27.6 to 70.8 ± 35 MPa, which is significantly higher than the moduli of natural phospholipids and cholesterols. The study shows that organic-inorganic hybridization is useful in the design of highly stable lipid-based materials.

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