scholarly journals 3D mapping of nanoscale crosslink heterogeneities in microgels

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1130-1136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Apostolos A. Karanastasis ◽  
Yongdeng Zhang ◽  
Gopal S. Kenath ◽  
Mark D. Lessard ◽  
Joerg Bewersdorf ◽  
...  

The majority of gels exhibit nanoscale spatial variations in crosslink density. We present the first 3D super-resolution microscopy images of dye tagged cross-link distributions in microgels and hydrogels. The morphology of nanoscale features never imaged previously in microgels, are revealed.

2014 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 25a
Author(s):  
Joerg Schnitzbauer ◽  
Xiaoyu Shi ◽  
Robert Kasper ◽  
Baohui Chen ◽  
Shijie Zhao ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keria Bermudez-Hernandez ◽  
Sarah Keegan ◽  
Donna R. Whelan ◽  
Dylan A. Reid ◽  
Jennifer Zagelbaum ◽  
...  

AbstractWe introduce the Interaction Factor (IF), a measure for quantifying the interaction of molecular clusters in super-resolution microscopy images. The IF is robust in the sense that it is independent of cluster density, and it only depends on the extent of the pair-wise interaction between different types of molecular clusters in the image. The IF for a single or a collection of images is estimated by first using stochastic modelling where the locations of clusters in the images are repeatedly randomized to estimate the distribution of the overlaps between the clusters in the absence of interaction (IF=0). Second, an analytical form of the relationship between IF and the overlap (which has the random overlap as its only parameter) is used to estimate the IF for the experimentally observed overlap. The advantage of IF compared to conventional methods to quantify interaction in microscopy images is that it is insensitive to changing cluster density and is an absolute measure of interaction, making the interpretation of experiments easier. We validate the IF method by using both simulated and experimental data and provide an ImageJ plugin for determining the IF of an image.


Soft Matter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (45) ◽  
pp. 9336-9342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Apostolos A. Karanastasis ◽  
Gopal S. Kenath ◽  
Ravishankar Sundararaman ◽  
Chaitanya K. Ullal

Super resolution microscopy of microgels is combined with volume evolution data to calculate rate constants of novel dye tagged crosslinkers, which will be useful in predicting crosslink density distributions.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viet Anh Ngo ◽  
Yan Nei Law ◽  
Srivats Hariharan ◽  
Hwee Kuan Lee ◽  
Sohail Ahmed

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Bittel ◽  
Isaac Saldivar ◽  
Nicholas Dolman ◽  
Andrew K. Nickerson ◽  
Li-Jung Lin ◽  
...  

Acta Naturae ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
S. S. Ryabichko ◽  
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A. N. Ibragimov ◽  
L. A. Lebedeva ◽  
E. N. Kozlov ◽  
...  

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