Nanoscale Probing the Kinetics of Oriented Bacterial Cell Growth Using Atomic Force Microscopy
Present address: Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China
Abstract
Probing oriented bacterial cell growth on the nanoscale: A novel open-top micro-channel is developed to facilitate the AFM imaging of physically trapped but freely growing bacteria. The growth curves of individual Escherichia coli cells with nanometer resolution and their kinetic nano-mechanical properties are quantitatively measured.





