Silver and gold nanoparticles have found extensive biomedical applications due to their
strong localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) and intriguing plasmonic properties …

Viruses are infectious agents that pose significant threats to plants, animals, and humans.
The current coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, which is caused by severe acute …

Zika and dengue are mosquito-borne diseases that present similar nonspecific symptoms
but possess dramatically different outcomes. The first line of defense in epidemic outbreaks …

Stable and efficient conjugates between antibodies and gold nanoparticles (GNP-Ab) are
sought to develop highly sensitive and robust biosensors with applications in medicine …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based immunoassays have several
advantages, such as high sensitivity and multiplex capabilities; they are emerging as a …

Lateral flow assays (LFAs) are highly attractive for point-of-care (POC) diagnostics for
infectious disease, food safety, and many other medical uses. The unique optical, electronic …

Over the last decades there has been a tremendous volume of research efforts focused on
engineering silver-based (nano) materials. The interest in silver has been mostly driven by …

Noble-metal nanoparticles (NMNPs) have unique properties beneficial for the development
of novel reporting technologies to enhance the detection sensitivity and specificity of …

Paper-based lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs) using conventional sandwich-type
immunoassays are one of the most commonly used point-of-care (PoC) tests. However, the …

COVID-19 first appeared in December of 2019 in Wuhan, China. Since then, it has become
a global pandemic. A robust and scalable diagnostics strategy is crucial for containing and …