Cellular Adhesion and Growth on the Vertically Aligned Silicon Nanowire Arrays

According to advanced nanotechnology, the nanostructured materials with various kinds and shape are synthesized easily or produced by process. Recently, researches about interaction between the nanostructured materials and biological system have been progressed actively. The surface topography may influence cellular responses, for example cell adhesion, cell morphology. In this work, we synthesized vertically aligned silicon nanowires (SiNWs) on the Au-covered Si(111) wafer by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. We accomplished to control of the SiNWs diameter by regulating thickness of Au film such as 1 nm and 10 nm. These substrates did not isolate cells and just provided surface topography for cell culture. Human Embryonic Kidney 293T cells (HEK 293T cells) were cultured on these substrates for 2 days. We studied the nanotopographical effects on cell morphology, adhesion, and growth which are evaluated on each SiNWs substrate comparing bare glass as control.