Colloidal nanoparticles as advanced biological sensors

PD Howes, R Chandrawati, MM Stevens - Science, 2014 - science.org
Background Nanoparticle biosensors have the potential to enhance or supersede current
analytical techniques, and their introduction could have a great impact in research and …

Gold nanoparticles in chemical and biological sensing

K Saha, SS Agasti, C Kim, X Li, VM Rotello - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
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 …

Spherical nucleic acids

JI Cutler, E Auyeung, CA Mirkin - Journal of the American …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A historical perspective of the development of spherical nucleic acid (SNA) conjugates and
other three-dimensional nucleic acid nanostructures is provided. This Perspective details the …

Noble metal nanoparticles for biosensing applications

G Doria, J Conde, B Veigas, L Giestas, C Almeida… - Sensors, 2012 - mdpi.com
In the last decade the use of nanomaterials has been having a great impact in biosensing. In
particular, the unique properties of noble metal nanoparticles have allowed for the …

Current technologies of electrochemical immunosensors: Perspective on signal amplification

IH Cho, J Lee, J Kim, M Kang, JK Paik, S Ku, HM Cho… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
An electrochemical immunosensor employs antibodies as capture and detection means to
produce electrical charges for the quantitative analysis of target molecules. This sensor type …

Measurement of biomarker proteins for point-of-care early detection and monitoring of cancer

JF Rusling, CV Kumar, JS Gutkind, V Patel - Analyst, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
This critical review evaluates progress toward viable point-of-care protein biomarker
measurements for cancer detection and diagnostics. The ability to measure panels of …

Plasmonic nanomaterials for biodiagnostics

PD Howes, S Rana, MM Stevens - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The application of nanomaterials to detect disease biomarkers is giving rise to ultrasensitive
assays, with scientists exploiting the many advantageous physical and chemical properties …

Gold nanoparticle-based signal amplification for biosensing

X Cao, Y Ye, S Liu - Analytical biochemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
Colloidal gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), with unique properties such as highly resonant
particle plasmons, direct visualization of single nanoclusters by scattering of light, catalytic …

Suspension arrays based on nanoparticle-encoded microspheres for high-throughput multiplexed detection

Y Leng, K Sun, X Chen, W Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Spectrometrically or optically encoded microsphere based suspension array technology
(SAT) is applicable to the high-throughput, simultaneous detection of multiple analytes …

Unexpected chirality of nanoparticle dimers and ultrasensitive chiroplasmonic bioanalysis

X Wu, L Xu, L Liu, W Ma, H Yin, H Kuang… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Chiral assemblies of nanoparticles (NPs) are typically constructed with helical or tetrahedral
geometries. Simple pairs of NPs are not expected to display chirality due to basic symmetry …