1. Professor Theodore Madey Case Study Discussant: Prabhas Moghe
125: 583 Biointerfacial Characterization
Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA)
Professor Theodore Madey
Case Study Discussant: Prabhas Moghe

2. Outline of Lecture Introduction Principles of ESCA
The photoelectron effect
Instrumentation -- how measurements are made
Analysis Capabilities
Elemental analysis
Chemical state analysis (core level shifts)
More complex effects
Surface Sensitivity
Applications
Comparisons with other techniques
Discussion of Journal Paper (Biointerfacial Case Study)

3. Motivation
Why is surface analysis important for Biomaterials and Biological Systems?
Interactions between solid surfaces and biological systems
--- Biocompatibility
--- Biomolecular separations
--- Cell culture
--- Marine Fouling
--- Biosensors

4. 1. Introduction
-- ESCA provides unique information about chemical composition
And chemical state of a surface
-- useful for biomaterials
-- advantages
-- surface sensitive (top few monolayers)
-- wide range of solids
-- relatively non-destructive
-- disadvantages
-- expensive, slow, poor spatial resolution, requires high
vacuum

5. 2. Principles of ESCA
ESCA (also known as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, XPS) is based on the photoelectron effect. A high energy X-ray photon can ionize an atom, producing an ejected free electron with kinetic energy KE:
=photon energy (e.g., for
BE=energy necessary to remove a specific electron from an atom. BE orbital energy
X-rays are ionizing radiation comparable to radioactivity (in fact, low energy gamma rays and high energy X-rays are the same). X-rays are characterized by two independent values: their "energy", expressed in terms of accelerating voltage, and their intensity, directly related to the current, and measured through the count rate of a geiger tube. Penetration power is determined by energy, i.e. the percentage of a given intensity that is let through a certain material depends on the energy. In general, the higher, the more penetrating.
X-rays are produced when fast electrons hit matter. Fast electrons are produced in a high vacuum tube by setting them free from the cathode, accelerating them through a high voltage, and having them hit the metal anode. There, they turn % of their energy into X-rays (the rest goes into heat).

6. Basics of Light, EM Spectrum, and X-rays
Light can take on many forms. Radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma radiation are all different forms of light.
The energy of the photon tells what kind of light it is. Radio waves are composed of low energy photons. Optical photons--the only photons perceived by the human eye--are a million times more energetic than the typical radio photon. The energies of X-ray photons range from hundreds to thousands of times higher than that of optical photons.
Very low temperatures (hundreds of degrees below zero Celsius) produce low energy radio and microwave photons, whereas cool bodies like ours (about 30 degrees Celsius) produce infrared radiation. Very high temperatures (millions of degrees Celsius) produce X-rays.
A new form of radiation was discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen, a German physicist. He called it X-radiation to denote its unknown nature. This mysterious radiation had the ability to pass through many materials that absorb visible light. X-rays also have the ability to knock electrons loose from atoms. Over the years these exceptional properties have made X-rays useful in many fields, such as medicine and research into the nature of the atom.
Eventually, X-rays were found to be another form of light. Light is the by-product of the constant jiggling, vibrating, hurly-burly of all matter.
Like a frisky puppy, matter cannot be still. The chair you are sitting in may look and feel motionless. But if you could see down to the atomic level you would see atoms and molecules vibrating hundreds of trillions of times a second and bumping into each other, while electrons zip around at speeds of 25,000 miles per hour.
When charged particles collide--or undergo sudden changes in their motion--they produce bundles of energy called photons that fly away from the scene of the accident at the speed of light. In fact they are light, or electromagnetic radiation, to use the technical term. Since electrons are the lightest known charged particle, they are most fidgety, so they are responsible for most of the photons produced in the universe.

7. • Different orbitals give Different peaks in spectrum
All energies expressed in electron volts (eV);
1 eV=1.6x10-19 J
In ESCA, you know & you measure KE; this determines BE.
Photoelectron process: Consider an ensemble of C atoms. Each C atom has 6 electrons in 1s, 2s, 2 p orbitals: C 1s2 2s2 2 p2
• Different orbitals give
Different peaks in spectrum
• Peak intensities depend on
Photoionization cross section
(largest for C 1s)
• Extra peak:
Auger emission

8. Instrumentation: How are measurements made?
Essential components:
Sample: usually 1 cm2
X-ray source: Al: eV; Mg eV
Electron Energy Analyzer: 100 mm radius concentric hemispherical analyzer; vary voltages to vary pass energy.
Detector: electron multiplier (channeltron)
Electronics, Computer
Note: All in ultrahigh vacuum (<10-8 Torr) (<10-11 atm)
State-of-the-art small spot ESCA: 10 mm spot size.

9. 3. Analysis Capabilities
3d3/2,5/2
Ag: Z=47
Elemental Analysis: atoms have valence and core electrons: Core-level Binding energies provide unique signature of elements.
Quantitative analysis: measure intensities, use standards or tables of sensitivity factor

10. Be careful: elements with similar BEs C1s & Ru3d; Ar2p & Rb 3p

11. Chemical State Identification
Core level chemical shifts:
For the same atom in two different chemical states:
C1s – 4 peaks!

12. Explanation of chemical shifts
If a charge q is added to (or removed from) the
valence shell due to chemical bond formation, the
electrostatic potential felt by the electron inside
the atom is changed. r
DE ~ q/r ~ D BE - (BE)o
(Si2p BE increases)
• When atom loses valence charge (Si0 --> Si4+ ) BE increases.
• When atom gains valence charge (O --> O--) BE decreases.

13. • Chemical shift of C1s Also: final state effects more complex effects
-spin-orbit splitting
-shake-up, shake-off
-Auger electron emission

14. Important factor is surface sensitivity; short mean free path l for Inelastic electron scattering.
95% of signal comes from top layer (t=3l)
e.g., 50 eV electrons, l~5Å, t < 15Å
1200 eV electrons, l~20Å , t< 60Å
Enhance surface sensitivity by grazing take-off.
Applications
-- Surface contamination
-- Failure analysis
-- Effects of surface treatments
-- Coating, films
-- Tribological effects
-- Depth Profiling (Ar+ sputtering) -
F1s
C1s

15. ESCA studies of polyimide Pyromellitic dianhydride -- oxydianiline
PMDA - ODA •
C KLL Auger

19. Applications to biomaterials and biointerfaces
• Biological interfaces have a limited number of elements
(C, H, O, N, S, P, Si)
• Extracting useful surface information is challenging.
• ESCA can be used to
(a) detect the presence of adsorbed proteins.
(b) estimate the amount of protein present
(c) resolution of one protein from another is difficult since many proteins share chemical features. When spectra are taken as a function of take-off angle, Useful information can be obtained, for example, for the uniformity of an overlayer; fraction covered; protein film thickness; and orientation of protein in the film.

20. The table below is used to determine which surface analysis techniques would be most appropriate to solve problems in specific application areas.
AES
XPS
TOF-SIMS
Probe beam
Analysis beam
Electrons
Photons
Ions
Sampling Depth
5-50 Å
1-10 Å
Detection Limits
1 x 10-3
1 x 10-4
1 x 10-6
Information
Elemental, SEM
Elemental, Chemical
Elemental, Chemical,
Molecular
Spatial Resolution
~100 Ao
~10 mm
~1000 Ao
Restriction
Inorganics
(e-beam damage of organics a major problem)
Few
Quantification Standards
Required

21. Discussion of Journal Paper
Biomaterials 27 (2006) ; Fabrication, characterization, and biological assessment of multilayered DNA-coatings for biomaterial purposes
van den Beucken JJ, Vos MR, Thune PC, Hayakawa T, Fukushima T, Okahata Y, Walboomers XF, Sommerdijk NA, Nolte RJ, Jansen JA.
Received 30 May 2005; accepted 21 June Available online 1 August 2005.
Abstract
This study describes the fabrication of two types of multilayered coatings onto titanium by electrostatic self-assembly (ESA), using deoxyribosenucleic acid (DNA) as the anionic polyelectrolyte and poly-d-lysine (PDL) or poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) as the cationic polyelectrolyte. Both coatings were characterized using UV-vis spectrophotometry, atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray photospectroscopy (XPS), contact angle measurements, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and for the amount of DNA immobilized. The mutagenicity of the constituents of the coatings was assessed. Titanium substrates with or without multilayered DNA-coatings were used in cell culture experiments to study cell proliferation, viability, and morphology. Results of UV-vis spectrophotometry, AFM, and contact angle measurements clearly indicated the progressive build-up of the multilayered coatings. Furthermore, AFM and XPS data showed a more uniform build-up and morphology of [PDL/DNA]-coatings compared to [PAH/DNA]-coatings. DNA-immobilization into both coatings was linear, and approximated 3 μg/cm2 into each double-layer. The surface morphology of both types of multilayered DNA-coatings showed elevations in the nanoscale range. No mutagenic effects of DNA, PDL, or PAH were detected, and cell viability and morphology were not affected by the presence of either type of multilayered DNA-coating. Still, the results of the proliferation assay revealed an increased proliferation of primary rat dermal fibroblasts on both types of multilayered DNA-coatings compared to non-coated controls. The biocompatibility and functionalization of the coatings produced here, will be assessed in subsequent cell culture and animal-implantation studies.
Keywords: AFM; Cell culture; Cell morphology; Cell proliferation; Cell viability; Electrostatic self-assembly; Fibroblast; FTIR; MIT assay; Mutagenicity; Nanotopography; SEM; Surface modification; Titanium

22. Experimental Procedures
Polycationic polyelectrolytes
PAH
PDL

23. The results PDL/DNA Ti peaks seen PAH/DNA No Ti Peaks
Mg (?) Auger peaks – due to impurity counter ions?