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Tunable high-quality-factor absorption in a graphene monolayer based on quasi-bound states in the continuum

  • Jun Wu,
  • Yasong Sun,
  • Feng Wu,
  • Biyuan Wu and
  • Xiaohu Wu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 675–681, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.59

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  • absorption of graphene may find potential applications for the realization of ultrasensitive biosensors, photodetectors, and narrow-band filters. Keywords: bound states in the continuum; graphene; gratings; selective absorption; Introduction Absorbers possess a wide range of applications, including radar
  • electrically tuned without re-fabricating the whole structure. The results may find potential applications for the realization of high-performance graphene-based electrically tunable active devices including ultrasensitive biosensors, detectors, and perfect filters. Schematic of the graphene absorber
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Published 19 Jul 2022

Bacterial safety study of the production process of hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers

  • Axel Steffen,
  • Yu Xiong,
  • Radostina Georgieva,
  • Ulrich Kalus and
  • Hans Bäumler

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 114–126, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.8

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  • possible applications for these microparticles. For example, enzyme particles have been produced to be used as microreactors or biosensors [4]. This method can also represent a promising approach to the production of drug carriers by the precipitation of favorable biopolymers and corresponding surface
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Published 24 Jan 2022

Biocompatibility and cytotoxicity in vitro of surface-functionalized drug-loaded spinel ferrite nanoparticles

  • Sadaf Mushtaq,
  • Khuram Shahzad,
  • Tariq Saeed,
  • Anwar Ul-Hamid,
  • Bilal Haider Abbasi,
  • Nafees Ahmad,
  • Waqas Khalid,
  • Muhammad Atif,
  • Zulqurnain Ali and
  • Rashda Abbasi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1339–1364, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.99

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  • -assisted control of the behavior of MNPs makes them suitable candidates for targeted drug delivery, hyperthermia, biosensors, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and magnetic separation [9][10]. Magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles (NPs), belonging to the spinel ferrite class, are the most extensively studied
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Published 02 Dec 2021

An overview of microneedle applications, materials, and fabrication methods

  • Zahra Faraji Rad,
  • Philip D. Prewett and
  • Graham J. Davies

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1034–1046, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.77

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  • biosensors, micropumps, microfluidic chips, and microelectronic devices. The choice of manufacturing techniques for microneedles is dependent on material properties, fabrication cost, and desired height and shape of the microstructure. Hollow microneedles can actively deliver drugs into the skin, but due to
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Published 13 Sep 2021

Comprehensive review on ultrasound-responsive theranostic nanomaterials: mechanisms, structures and medical applications

  • Sepand Tehrani Fateh,
  • Lida Moradi,
  • Elmira Kohan,
  • Michael R. Hamblin and
  • Amin Shiralizadeh Dezfuli

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 808–862, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.64

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Published 11 Aug 2021

The preparation temperature influences the physicochemical nature and activity of nanoceria

  • Robert A. Yokel,
  • Wendel Wohlleben,
  • Johannes Georg Keller,
  • Matthew L. Hancock,
  • Jason M. Unrine,
  • D. Allan Butterfield and
  • Eric A. Grulke

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 525–540, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.43

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  • as the beneficial biological effects and human diseases that could potentially be treated [11], and the physicochemical properties that mediate the effects of nanoceria, its biochemical properties, biosynthesis, and its major biomedical applications, including biosensors [12]. Additional applications
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Published 04 Jun 2021

The impact of molecular tumor profiling on the design strategies for targeting myeloid leukemia and EGFR/CD44-positive solid tumors

  • Nikola Geskovski,
  • Nadica Matevska-Geshkovska,
  • Simona Dimchevska Sazdovska,
  • Marija Glavas Dodov,
  • Kristina Mladenovska and
  • Katerina Goracinova

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 375–401, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.31

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Published 29 Apr 2021

Differences in surface chemistry of iron oxide nanoparticles result in different routes of internalization

  • Barbora Svitkova,
  • Vlasta Zavisova,
  • Veronika Nemethova,
  • Martina Koneracka,
  • Miroslava Kretova,
  • Filip Razga,
  • Monika Ursinyova and
  • Alena Gabelova

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 270–281, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.22

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  • eligible for the targeted delivery of the drug-loaded particles to the tumor mass via an external magnetic field [2]. Furthermore, MNPs are promising biosensors [3] and antimicrobial tools [4], and they play an important role in the development of multifunctional theranostics to combat cancer [5]. MNPs are
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Published 23 Mar 2021

A review on the green and sustainable synthesis of silver nanoparticles and one-dimensional silver nanostructures

  • Sina Kaabipour and
  • Shohreh Hemmati

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 102–136, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.9

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  • but not limited to renewable energy, electronics, biosensors, wastewater treatment, medicine, and clinical equipment. The properties of silver nanostructures, such as size, size distribution, and morphology, are strongly dependent on synthesis process conditions such as the process type, equipment
  • be seen in the development of antimicrobial agents, biosensors, optics, solar energy, and drug delivery [267][268][269]. 3.2 Fungi-mediated synthesis Fungal species have demonstrated significant potential for the synthesis of AgNPs. Their high binding and bioaccumulation capacity, intracellular
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Published 25 Jan 2021

ZnO and MXenes as electrode materials for supercapacitor devices

  • Ameen Uddin Ammar,
  • Ipek Deniz Yildirim,
  • Feray Bakan and
  • Emre Erdem

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 49–57, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.4

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  • used, for example, in water purification, as electrochemical actuators, as transparent conductive electrodes, and as biosensors [21][22][28]. To enhance the performance of MXene supercapacitors, a variety of materials, such as graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs), tin(IV) oxide (SnO2), and iron(III
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Published 13 Jan 2021

High-responsivity hybrid α-Ag2S/Si photodetector prepared by pulsed laser ablation in liquid

  • Raid A. Ismail,
  • Hanan A. Rawdhan and
  • Duha S. Ahmed

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1596–1607, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.142

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  • ][6]. Silver sulfide nanoparticles (NPs) are extensively used in many applications, such as photoconductors, solar cells, infrared (IR) photodetectors, biosensors, photocatalysts, and probes [7][8][9]. A number of techniques have been used to synthesize nanostructured Ag2S, including facile
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Published 21 Oct 2020

Wafer-level integration of self-aligned high aspect ratio silicon 3D structures using the MACE method with Au, Pd, Pt, Cu, and Ir

  • Mathias Franz,
  • Romy Junghans,
  • Paul Schmitt,
  • Adriana Szeghalmi and
  • Stefan E. Schulz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1439–1449, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.128

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  • platform and can be adapted to detect biomolecules [9]. Silicon nanowires are used as template for cancer sensors. The nanowires are implemented as gate in integrated sensing FETs [10][11]. A wide range of chemical sensors and biosensors benefit from porous silicon structures [12]. All these presented
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Published 23 Sep 2020

A few-layer graphene/chlorin e6 hybrid nanomaterial and its application in photodynamic therapy against Candida albicans

  • Selene Acosta,
  • Carlos Moreno-Aguilar,
  • Dania Hernández-Sánchez,
  • Beatriz Morales-Cruzado,
  • Erick Sarmiento-Gomez,
  • Carla Bittencourt,
  • Luis Octavio Sánchez-Vargas and
  • Mildred Quintana

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1054–1061, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.90

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  • biological applications, such as biosensors, protein detection, bioimaging and drug delivery [17][18]. In recent years, graphene nanoparticles have been used in many different applications ranging from enhanced spectroscopy techniques, coatings, polymeric composites, sensors, drug delivery systems and others
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Published 17 Jul 2020

Multilayer capsules made of weak polyelectrolytes: a review on the preparation, functionalization and applications in drug delivery

  • Varsha Sharma and
  • Anandhakumar Sundaramurthy

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 508–532, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.41

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Published 27 Mar 2020

Using gold nanoparticles to detect single-nucleotide polymorphisms: toward liquid biopsy

  • María Sanromán Iglesias and
  • Marek Grzelczak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 263–284, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.20

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  • and its implementation into point-of-care devices for common use. Covering the last twenty years, this review gives an overview of the state-of-the-art of the research on the use of gold nanoparticles in the development of colorimetric biosensors for the detection of single-nucleotide polymorphism as
  • discrimination of SNP. The most relevant types of cancer including colorectal, breast, ovarian, pancreatic and lung cancer comprise several common tumor-specific aberrations of single-point mutations, which are frequently selected as targets in the development of novel biosensors based on nanoparticles. Further
  • below, we describe the working principles of biosensors that were designed for the detection of the primary tumor-specific aberrations listed in Table 2. Colloidal gold as a signal transducer in SNP detection With the increased diversity of available optically active nanomaterials, optical assays have
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Published 31 Jan 2020

Molecular architectonics of DNA for functional nanoarchitectures

  • Debasis Ghosh,
  • Lakshmi P. Datta and
  • Thimmaiah Govindaraju

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 124–140, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.11

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  • vector and provided efficient sensing of changes in the intracellular acidic pH value. In recent years, DNA thin film-based biosensors received significant interest for the detection of biologically relevant analytes, such has forensic samples [61][62]. The design of active electrochemical DNA sensors
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Published 09 Jan 2020

Evaluation of click chemistry microarrays for immunosensing of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)

  • Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Dadfar,
  • Sylwia Sekula-Neuner,
  • Vanessa Trouillet,
  • Hui-Yu Liu,
  • Ravi Kumar,
  • Annie K. Powell and
  • Michael Hirtz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2505–2515, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.241

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  • fabricated by microchannel cantilever spotting (μCS). Here, patterns are written with fluorescently labeled AFP (as antigen) on the surfaces modified with anti-AFP (as antibody). In different studies, many selective biosensors have been developed based on antigen–antibody interactions [22][30][31][33][34][35
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Published 16 Dec 2019

Atomic force acoustic microscopy reveals the influence of substrate stiffness and topography on cell behavior

  • Yan Liu,
  • Li Li,
  • Xing Chen,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Meng-Nan Liu,
  • Jin Yan,
  • Liang Cao,
  • Lu Wang and
  • Zuo-Bin Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2329–2337, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.223

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  • SU-8 photoresist films as the substrate and generated local changes in the stiffness and the nanopattern topography on the surface. The SU-8 photoresist has been used as the material for biosensors in living tissues [24] and cell culture molds in vitro due to its excellent biocompatibility [16] and
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Published 26 Nov 2019

Use of data processing for rapid detection of the prostate-specific antigen biomarker using immunomagnetic sandwich-type sensors

  • Camila A. Proença,
  • Tayane A. Freitas,
  • Thaísa A. Baldo,
  • Elsa M. Materón,
  • Flávio M. Shimizu,
  • Gabriella R. Ferreira,
  • Frederico L. F. Soares,
  • Ronaldo C. Faria and
  • Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr.

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2171–2181, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.210

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  • sparked interest in computational tools [31]. For instance, information visualization techniques have been used to enhance the distinguishing ability of biosensors [32][33][34]. Discrimination of blood serum samples from patients with distinct probability to develop pancreatic cancer was made possible
  • polymer-based immunosensor [34][55]. This rather low value is expected for biosensors where the index n is characteristic of heterogeneous adsorption with polyclonal biomolecules that have many active sites with different degrees of affinity and selectivity. Application of the immunosensor in real samples
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Published 06 Nov 2019

Review of advanced sensor devices employing nanoarchitectonics concepts

  • Katsuhiko Ariga,
  • Tatsuyuki Makita,
  • Masato Ito,
  • Taizo Mori,
  • Shun Watanabe and
  • Jun Takeya

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2014–2030, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.198

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  • science [44][45][46]. Therefore, further developments in sensors can be made by the combined efforts in nanotechnology and other research fields including supramolecular chemistry, organic synthesis, and materials sciences. In case of biosensors, contributions from biology play important roles [47][48][49
  • features [82]. Therefore, the design and fabrication of biosensors based on the nanoarchitectonics concept may have many particular advantages. In this review article, we first discuss several examples of recent progress in sensor systems whose advanced nanoarchitectonic design and fabrication allowed for
  • ultrathin polyethylene terephthalate foils. The prepared sensors are extremely flexible (bending radii <3 µm) and light weight (≈3 g m−2). They are wearable and act as a magneto-sensitive skin with navigation and touchless control capabilities. Biosensors Because biosensors can provide crucial contributions
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Published 16 Oct 2019

Nanoarchitectonics meets cell surface engineering: shape recognition of human cells by halloysite-doped silica cell imprints

  • Elvira Rozhina,
  • Ilnur Ishmukhametov,
  • Svetlana Batasheva,
  • Farida Akhatova and
  • Rawil Fakhrullin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1818–1825, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.176

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  • in cell surface engineering [15]. Surface-engineered cells have found applications in whole-cell biocatalysis [16], cell therapy [17], magnetic cell delivery [18], fabrication of multicellular assemblies [19], cell protection [20][21], biosensors [22] and tissue engineering [23]. Shells derived from
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Published 04 Sep 2019

Layered double hydroxide/sepiolite hybrid nanoarchitectures for the controlled release of herbicides

  • Ediana Paula Rebitski,
  • Margarita Darder and
  • Pilar Aranda

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1679–1690, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.163

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  • components in diverse electrochemical devices (such as supercapacitors, sensors, and biosensors), in drug delivery and controlled-release formulations, or in non-viral gene transfection [21][22][23][24][25][26]. The fact that the stability of LDH varies with the pH value has proved advantageous in some of
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Multicomponent bionanocomposites based on clay nanoarchitectures for electrochemical devices

  • Giulia Lo Dico,
  • Bernd Wicklein,
  • Lorenzo Lisuzzo,
  • Giuseppe Lazzara,
  • Pilar Aranda and
  • Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1303–1315, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.129

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  • characteristics allow for a possible application of these active elements as integrated multicomponent materials for advanced electrochemical devices such as biosensors and enzymatic biofuel cells. This strategy can be regarded as an “a la carte” menu, where the selection of the nanocomponents exhibiting
  • including drugs, proteins, and enzymes [14][15][16][17][18], even serving as nanoreactor for chemical processes [19]. Of particular interest is the use of HNTs for the uptake of enzymes in an approach for the development of (bio)electrochemical devices like biosensors and enzymatic biofuel cells (EBCs) [20
  • ]. The resulting multicomponent systems have advantages such as high electrical conductivity and flexibility that make the bionanocomposite films appropriate components for biosensors [35][40] for glucose detection, while the relatively high porosity of the bioactive foams enhances the power density and
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Published 25 Jun 2019

Direct growth of few-layer graphene on AlN-based resonators for high-sensitivity gravimetric biosensors

  • Jimena Olivares,
  • Teona Mirea,
  • Lorena Gordillo-Dagallier,
  • Bruno Marco,
  • José Miguel Escolano,
  • Marta Clement and
  • Enrique Iborra

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 975–984, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.98

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  • detection; graphene integration; gravimetric biosensor; surface functionalization; Introduction Gravimetric biosensors based on microscale mechanical or electromechanical resonators have attracted significant interest in recent years mainly due to the high sensitivity and selectivity they can attain if
  • resonators (SMR), providing acoustic isolation through acoustic reflectors instead of air cavities, are well suited for in-liquid operation and microfluidics integration [3]. A critical step in the manufacturing of gravimetric biosensors is the functionalization of their active surface, which provides the
  • scientific community due to their extraordinary prospects for novel applications, such as highly sensitive biosensors that may offer continuous label-free measurement of key bio-active cell molecules [10]. Few-layer graphene grown on top of gravimetric transducers offers, a priori, one of the most versatile
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Experimental study of an evanescent-field biosensor based on 1D photonic bandgap structures

  • Jad Sabek,
  • Francisco Javier Díaz-Fernández,
  • Luis Torrijos-Morán,
  • Zeneida Díaz-Betancor,
  • Ángel Maquieira,
  • María-José Bañuls,
  • Elena Pinilla-Cienfuegos and
  • Jaime García-Rupérez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 967–974, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.97

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  • , due to the various advantages it provides, e.g., high sensitivity, miniaturization, high multiplexing level, fast response, need for very low sample and reagent volumes and the compatibility to complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication [3]. Chip-integrated photonic biosensors have
  • been demonstrated for several applications such as medical diagnosis, environmental monitoring or security control [4]. Most typical configurations of integrated photonic biosensors are based on the use of resonant or interferometric configurations, as it is the case of ring resonators or disks and
  • femtomolar range for oligonucleotides detection [6]. A particular type of photonic sensing devices are photonic bandgap (PBG) biosensors based on evanescent-wave detection [7]. PBG structures consist of a periodic dielectric configuration for which the propagation of a certain wavelength range is forbidden
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