The industry of nanotechnology is growing faster than the understanding of nanoparticle’s long term health and environmental effects, which has brought about research regarding nanoparticle cytotoxicity. Our research focused on studying interactions between supported lipid bilayers with varying sized bare unconjugated gold nanoparticles. The interactions were monitored on an instrument, known as a Quartz crystal microbalance. From the results, size wasn’t a variable that governed how the bare gold nanoparticles affected the membrane. A major factor in the results was the lack of reproducibility. The existence of defects during the formation of the SLB is in itself a variable in the experiment and will need to be treated thusly in future nanoparticle-lipid bilayer research.

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Creator

• Carey, Andrew Thomas
• Lazkani, Houssam

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042512-235147

Advisor

• Camesano, Terri Anne

Year

• 2012

Date created

• 2012-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Chemical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright