Overview of optical biosensors for early cancer detection: fundamentals, applications and future perspectives

MY Azab, MFO Hameed, SSA Obayya - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Due to the increase in cancer incidence worldwide, a necessity for early
cancer detection arises. Since the conventional detection and treatment techniques are …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the synthesis, properties, and applications of bulk and two-dimensional tin (II) sulfide (SnS)

KJ Norton, F Alam, DJ Lewis - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tin (II) sulfide (SnS) is an attractive semiconductor for solar energy conversion in thin film
devices due to its bandgap of around 1.3 eV in its orthorhombic polymorph, and a band gap …

Critical assessment of relevant methods in the field of biosensors with direct optical detection based on fibers and waveguides using plasmonic, resonance, and …

G Gauglitz - Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2020 - Springer
Direct optical detection has proven to be a highly interesting tool in biomolecular interaction
analysis to be used in drug discovery, ligand/receptor interactions, environmental analysis …

High-sensitivity and ultrafast-response ethanol sensors based on graphene oxide

X Zhu, J Zhang, Q Xie, ZL Hou - ACS applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ethanol sensors with ultrafast response and high sensitivity have attracted much attention to
be applied to daily industrial production processes. In this work, graphene oxide–aniline …

Near-room-temperature ethanol detection using Ag-loaded mesoporous carbon nitrides

VK Tomer, R Malik, K Kailasam - ACS omega, 2017 - ACS Publications
Development of room-temperature gas sensors is a much sought-after aspect that has
fostered research in realizing new two-dimensional materials with high surface area for …

Analysis of the interaction between chitosan with different molecular weights and casein based on optical interferometry

N Ma, L Wang, L Zhou, Y Wan, S Ding, W Qian - Food Hydrocolloids, 2023 - Elsevier
Chitosan can be used as a stabilizer in dairy products to help suspend and stabilize casein
micelles, but the molecular weight (MW) effect of chitosan has not been much explored. This …

UV-illumination and Au-nanoparticles enhanced gas sensing of p-type Na-doped ZnO nanowires operating at room temperature

CL Hsu, BY Jhang, C Kao, TJ Hsueh - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2018 - Elsevier
High density p-type Na-doped ZnO nanowires were uniformly grown on glass substrate via
the hydrothermal method, and then examined by SEM, XRD, PL, XPS, and TEM analysis …

Solid-state synthesis strategy of hierarchically-structured BiOCl desert-roses for the selective detection of C2H5OH

ST Navale, Z Yang, C Liu, A Kumar, G Sharma… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bismuth oxychloride desert-rose microflowers (BiOCl DMFs), composed of several
nanoplates with crevices between them that facilitate sufficient surface for reactions of the …

Surface functionalization utilizing mesoporous silica nanoparticles for enhanced evanescent-field mid-infrared waveguide gas sensing

D Al Husseini, Y Karanth, J Zhou, D Willhelm, X Qian… - Coatings, 2021 - mdpi.com
This work focuses on the development of nanoparticle-based layer-by-layer (LbL) coatings
for enhancing the detection sensitivity and selectivity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) …

Potential application of multi-walled carbon nanotubes/activated carbon/bamboo charcoal for efficient alcohol sensing

V Kumar, PK Tyagi - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2018 - Elsevier
In the present work, multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), bamboo charcoal (BC) and
activated carbon (AC) have been synthesized via thermal CVD technique by adopting fixed …