Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Electrochemical camera chip for simultaneous imaging of multiple metabolites in biofilms

  • Daniel L. Bellin,
  • Hassan Sakhtah,
  • Yihan Zhang,
  • Alexa Price-Whelan,
  • Lars E. P. Dietrich,
  • Kenneth L. Shepard

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10535
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Much remains to be understood about the biochemical basis of microbial community behaviour in biofilms. Here the authors describe a novel electrochemical camera chip that allows simultaneous spatial imaging of multiple metabolites that are crucial to community behaviour within whole microbial biofilms.