1. INTRODUCTION Detection of chemical and biological agents plays a fundamental role in
biomedical, forensic and environmental sciences 1− 4 as well as in anti bioterrorism …

General principles and recent developments in the synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)
are reviewed. The “in situ” Turkevich-Frens and Brust-Schiffrin methods are still major …

The past few decades have witnessed significant advances in the development of
functionalized gold nanoparticles for applications in various fields such as chemistry …

Large differences between the DPP responses of ss-and dsDNAs (Figure 4B) suggest that
the double-helical structure of the dsDNA is not significantly disturbed at the DME surface …

Colloidal gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), with unique properties such as highly resonant
particle plasmons, direct visualization of single nanoclusters by scattering of light, catalytic …

Inorganic nanoparticle/dendrimer nanocomposites received considerable attention in the
past decade due to their unique properties (catalytic, optical, magnetic, biomedical …

Metal and semiconductor nanoparticles exhibit unique optical, electrical, thermal and
catalytic properties. Therefore, they have attracted considerable interest and have been …

Signal amplification strategies have attracted considerable attention due to the growing
demands for ultrasensitive bioassays. Here, we summarize the latest developments in the …

A new electrochemical DNA biosensor was fabricated by using a V2O5 nanobelts (nano-
V2O5), multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and chitosan (CTS) nanocomposite …

The specificity and reversibility of the hydrogen-bonding between two complementary
strands in DNA make this bio-molecule a unique binding agent. When DNA is grafted to …