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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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  • sensing performance. Electrochemical immunosensors containing magnetic nanoparticles have been used to detect several cancer biomarkers [22][23][24]. Zhuo and co-workers detected carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and α-fetoprotein (AFP) with a three-layer immunosensor with Fe3O4 magnetic core modified with a
  • architecture of the sensing device, in which polyclonal antibodies were immobilized onto magnetic nanoparticles to selectively capture PSA. Furthermore, a proof-of-principle experiment regarding the detection of PSA in healthy and prostate cancer cell lysates is demonstrated, where the data were discriminated
  • , respectively. This can be seen by the location of the sandwich-type immunosensing data for these cells in Figure 5. Conclusion In this paper, we leverage sensing technologies to achieve ultrahigh sensitivity in detecting the prostate cancer biomarker PSA by using MNPs to capture PSA in a pre-concentration
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Published 06 Nov 2019

Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond for nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging applications

  • Alberto Boretti,
  • Lorenzo Rosa,
  • Jonathan Blackledge and
  • Stefania Castelletto

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2128–2151, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.207

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  • using ultra-low-field MRI and OMRI sequences. The difference images from the two methods reveal a higher contrast of the NDs compared to water. Moreover, this method permits a better tracking of NDs in biological samples using OMRI sequences. NV-center quantum sensing There are different concepts
  • preparation. Specifically, NV forms in both bulk and ND – this option introduces more opportunity in terms of applications, even if the ND NV magnetic sensing technology is less developed. A review of the superior properties of diamond nanomaterials and the NV centers, as well as their uses in biomedical
  • enhancement of the dynamic range by a factor of 4 × 103 is achieved for interrogation times exceeding 2 ms. Optical detection of weak magnetic fields in a spin bath is undertaken in [26] by sensing external magnetic dipoles with fluorescent ND due to the charge dynamics of coupled spins. This provides
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Published 04 Nov 2019

Ion mobility and material transport on KBr in air as a function of the relative humidity

  • Dominik J. Kirpal,
  • Korbinian Pürckhauer,
  • Alfred J. Weymouth and
  • Franz J. Giessibl

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2084–2093, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.203

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  • range for each experiment. Experimental For the experiments we used a custom-designed AFM equipped with a qPlus sensor. The qPlus sensor is a stiff (k = 1800 N/m) self-sensing quartz sensor with a resonance frequency around f0 = 32 kHz. It has enabled unprecedented results in low-temperature AFM, such
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Published 30 Oct 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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  • logical conversion to outputs (response, energy, products, etc.). Good sensing systems have many contributions regarding the former part. This is why the importance of sensors has been re-recognized in modern sensor technology. In recent decades, the development of sensor technologies has highly depended
  • on advancements in microfabrication and nanofabrication of device structures. These so-called nanotechnological advancements enable us to prepare sensing devices with various advantageous features with an ultrasmall device size (thus requiring an ultrasmall amount of the target sample), highly
  • integrated connection, and high sensitivity [42][43]. In addition to these nanotechnological advancements in device fabrication, sensing materials for molecular recognition have been continuously explored on the basis of supramolecular chemistry with the aid of synthetic organic chemistry and materials
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Published 16 Oct 2019

Nanostructured and oriented metal–organic framework films enabling extreme surface wetting properties

  • Andre Mähringer,
  • Julian M. Rotter and
  • Dana D. Medina

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1994–2003, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.196

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  • ][41][42][43][44][45]. Thereby, they are attractive synthesis targets for a large variety of applications, including gas storage and separation, chemical sensing, thermoelectrics, capacitors, transistors or photovoltaics [46][47][48][49][50][51][52]. Due to their exceptional variety of structural
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Published 09 Oct 2019

First principles modeling of pure black phosphorus devices under pressure

  • Ximing Rong,
  • Zhizhou Yu,
  • Zewen Wu,
  • Junjun Li,
  • Bin Wang and
  • Yin Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1943–1951, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.190

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  • transition under axial strain [5][32]. The sensitivity to and the resilience against strain make BP an ideal material for strain-sensing electronics and flexible electronic devices. Xiao et al. fabricated few-layer BP nanosheets by chemical vapor transport [25], and observed a phase transition from an
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Published 24 Sep 2019

Charge-transfer interactions between fullerenes and a mesoporous tetrathiafulvalene-based metal–organic framework

  • Manuel Souto,
  • Joaquín Calbo,
  • Samuel Mañas-Valero,
  • Aron Walsh and
  • Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1883–1893, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.183

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  • constructed from metallic nodes and organic linkers, have been a major breakthrough in chemistry in the last decades [1][2]. Because of their immense structural and functional possibilities, this class of hybrid materials finds several applications in, for example, gas storage and separation, sensing or
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Published 18 Sep 2019

Processing nanoporous organic polymers in liquid amines

  • Jeehye Byun,
  • Damien Thirion and
  • Cafer T. Yavuz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1844–1850, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.179

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  • high porosity, which is beneficial for applications such as gas sorption, gas separation, heterogeneous (photo)catalysis, sensing, and (opto)electronics. However, the network structures are practically insoluble. Thus, the processing of nanoporous polymers into nanoparticles or films remains
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Biocatalytic oligomerization-induced self-assembly of crystalline cellulose oligomers into nanoribbon networks assisted by organic solvents

  • Yuuki Hata,
  • Yuka Fukaya,
  • Toshiki Sawada,
  • Masahito Nishiura and
  • Takeshi Serizawa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1778–1788, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.173

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  • nanoarchitectonics [1][4][11]. Achievements include nanopatterning [12], drug delivery [13], molecular sensing [14], nanodevices [15][16], and cell architectures [17][18]. On the other hand, crystalline poly- and oligosaccharides, such as cellulose and chitin, lag behind in nanoarchitectonics despite the superiority
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Growth dynamics and light scattering of gold nanoparticles in situ synthesized at high concentration in thin polymer films

  • Corentin Guyot,
  • Philippe Vandestrick,
  • Ingrid Marenne,
  • Olivier Deparis and
  • Michel Voué

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1768–1777, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.172

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  • can be used for constructing passively Q-switched or mode-locked lasers [13][14][15]. This type of lasers has numerous applications in telecommunications, medicine, material processing and optical fiber sensing [16][17]. Moreover, AuNPs are good candidates for preparing passive Q-switch films because
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Published 23 Aug 2019

Remarkable electronic and optical anisotropy of layered 1T’-WTe2 2D materials

  • Qiankun Zhang,
  • Rongjie Zhang,
  • Jiancui Chen,
  • Wanfu Shen,
  • Chunhua An,
  • Xiaodong Hu,
  • Mingli Dong,
  • Jing Liu and
  • Lianqing Zhu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1745–1753, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.170

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  • phenomena and for applications ranging from electronics [11] and photonics [12][13] to sensing [14][15] and actuation [16] at the nanoscale. Recently, tungsten telluride (WTe2), as a member of the TMDC family, has drawn tremendous research interest since the discovery of its large non-saturating positive
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The impact of crystal size and temperature on the adsorption-induced flexibility of the Zr-based metal–organic framework DUT-98

  • Simon Krause,
  • Volodymyr Bon,
  • Hongchu Du,
  • Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski,
  • Ulrich Stoeck,
  • Irena Senkovska and
  • Stefan Kaskel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1737–1744, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.169

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  • flexible MOFs are being reported and their use in the areas of storage [4], separation [5] and sensing [6] of gases is being evaluated; their structural flexibility and adsorption behavior can be manipulated by applying chemical functionalization to the ligand [7] and metal cluster [8]. However, recent
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Published 20 Aug 2019

Subsurface imaging of flexible circuits via contact resonance atomic force microscopy

  • Wenting Wang,
  • Chengfu Ma,
  • Yuhang Chen,
  • Lei Zheng,
  • Huarong Liu and
  • Jiaru Chu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1636–1647, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.159

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  • ) has emerged as a promising way. Various SPM-based nanoscale subsurface imaging methods have been proposed that rely on different detection mechanisms including thermal, magnetic, electric, and mechanical sensing. Among them, contact resonance atomic force microscopy (CR-AFM) demonstrates the unique
  • stiffer cover layer and a softer bottom layer can enable much easier subsurface sensing of the flexible circuits via CR-AFM, and the middle layer material does not have much influence. Optimization of CR-AFM subsurface imaging Based on the systematic investigation of the main variables, a contrast
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Published 07 Aug 2019

Kelvin probe force microscopy work function characterization of transition metal oxide crystals under ongoing reduction and oxidation

  • Dominik Wrana,
  • Karol Cieślik,
  • Wojciech Belza,
  • Christian Rodenbücher,
  • Krzysztof Szot and
  • Franciszek Krok

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1596–1607, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.155

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  • method employing KPFM and local conductivity AFM for the characterization of the work function of transition metal oxides may help in understanding the impact of reduction and oxidation on electronic properties, which is of high importance in the development of effective sensing and catalytic devices
  • splitting [1][44]. For industrial uses, the samples have to be exposed to ambient conditions, therefore it is necessary to investigate the impact of air exposure on electronic surface properties. Moreover, transition metal oxides are often regarded as promising materials for sensing applications, due to the
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Published 02 Aug 2019

Materials nanoarchitectonics at two-dimensional liquid interfaces

  • Katsuhiko Ariga,
  • Michio Matsumoto,
  • Taizo Mori and
  • Lok Kumar Shrestha

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1559–1587, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.153

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  • molecules for producing structurally well-regulated one-dimensional nanotubes [78]. Self-assembled and polymerized materials are often used in sensing devices utilizing molecular imprinting mechanisms [79]. Two-dimensional films made of assemblies of ion-recognizing macrocyclic host molecules, ion
  • , research approaches with the nanoarchitectonics concept are now seen in many recent publications in various fields including materials production [97][98], structural fabrication [99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108], sensing [109][110][111][112], energy applications [113][114][115][116][117
  • exhibit interesting properties [209][210][211][212][213][214][215]. Such materials can be also nano-engineered at liquid interfaces. Niederberger and co-workers successfully fabricated two-dimensionally aligned arrays of one-dimensional W18O49 nanowires and used them for H2-sensing at room temperature
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Published 30 Jul 2019

High-temperature resistive gas sensors based on ZnO/SiC nanocomposites

  • Vadim B. Platonov,
  • Marina N. Rumyantseva,
  • Alexander S. Frolov,
  • Alexey D. Yapryntsev and
  • Alexander M. Gaskov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1537–1547, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.151

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  • (XPS). The electrophysical and gas sensing properties of the materials were investigated by in situ conductivity measurements in the presence of the reducing gases CO and NH3 (20 ppm), in dry conditions (relative humidity at 25 °C RH25 = 0) and in humid air (RH25 = 30%) in the temperature range 400–550
  • alumina micro-hotplates provided with vapor-deposited Pt contacts (0.3 × 0.2 mm2) separated by a 0.2 mm gap and with embedded Pt-meanders. The paste was dried at room temperature in ambient air and then calcined at 250 °C in purified air for 20 h to remove the binder. The thick sensing layer was about 1
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Published 26 Jul 2019

Selective gas detection using Mn3O4/WO3 composites as a sensing layer

  • Yongjiao Sun,
  • Zhichao Yu,
  • Wenda Wang,
  • Pengwei Li,
  • Gang Li,
  • Wendong Zhang,
  • Lin Chen,
  • Serge Zhuivkov and
  • Jie Hu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1423–1433, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.140

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  • Abstract Pure WO3 sensors and Mn3O4/WO3 composite sensors with different Mn concentrations (1 atom %, 3 atom % and 5 atom %) were successfully prepared through a facile hydrothermal method. As gas sensing materials, their sensing performance at different temperatures was systematically investigated for gas
  • detection. The devices displayed different sensing responses toward different gases at specific temperatures. The gas sensing performance of Mn3O4/WO3 composites (especially at 3 atom % Mn) were far improved compared to sensors based on pure WO3, where the improvement is related to the heterojunction formed
  • door for potential applications in gas recognition and detection. Keywords: Mn3O4/WO3 composites; heterojunctions; working temperature; gas sensing; selectivity; Introduction Tungsten oxide (WO3) is a highly stable, classical transition metal oxide. When synthesized, WO3 usually presents a yellowish
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Published 17 Jul 2019

Gas sensing properties of individual SnO2 nanowires and SnO2 sol–gel nanocomposites

  • Alexey V. Shaposhnik,
  • Dmitry A. Shaposhnik,
  • Sergey Yu. Turishchev,
  • Olga A. Chuvenkova,
  • Stanislav V. Ryabtsev,
  • Alexey A. Vasiliev,
  • Xavier Vilanova,
  • Francisco Hernandez-Ramirez and
  • Joan R. Morante

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1380–1390, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.136

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  • , Universitetskaya, 1, Voronezh, 394018, Russia NRC Kurchatov Institute, Kurchatov Sq. 1, 123182, Moscow, Russia Rovira i Virgili University, Av. Paisos Catalans 17-19, 43007, Tarragona, Spain World Sensing, S.L., Viriat 47, 10th floor, 08014 Barcelona, Spain, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Sant Adrià de
  • selectivity to target gases. The aim of this work is the comparison of gas sensing properties of tin dioxide in the form of individual nanowires and nanopowders obtained by sol–gel synthesis. This comparison is necessary because the traditional synthesis procedures of small particle, metal oxide materials
  • considerably smaller amounts of hydroxy groups compared to the nanopowders. This leads to a decrease in the parasitic sensitivity of the sensing materials to humidity. In addition, we demonstrated that the nanowires are characterized by a nearly single-crystalline structure, ensuring higher stability of the
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Highly ordered mesoporous silica film nanocomposites containing gold nanoparticles for the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol

  • Mohamad Azani Jalani,
  • Leny Yuliati,
  • Siew Ling Lee and
  • Hendrik O. Lintang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1368–1379, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.135

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  • complex ([Au3Pz3]C10TEG) as a self-assembled template. Indeed, the resulting mesostructured silica nanocomposites not only exhibited perfect self-repairing properties, but also worked as a metal ion sensor [26] with excellent phosphorescent sensing and temperature imaging capabilities [27]. Hence, it is
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Janus-micromotor-based on–off luminescence sensor for active TNT detection

  • Ye Yuan,
  • Changyong Gao,
  • Daolin Wang,
  • Chang Zhou,
  • Baohua Zhu and
  • Qiang He

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1324–1331, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.131

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  • movement in 5% H2O2 with 0.5 mg mL−1 of TNT, indicating that the green upconversion luminescence (543 nm) of the UCNPs was quenched by the presence of TNT. The TNT sensing capability of these Janus UCNPs capsule motors was further evaluated by measuring the luminescence intensity. Figure 3d illustrates the
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Published 28 Jun 2019

On the relaxation time of interacting superparamagnetic nanoparticles and implications for magnetic fluid hyperthermia

  • Andrei Kuncser,
  • Nicusor Iacob and
  • Victor E. Kuncser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1280–1289, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.127

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  • dealing with a very high number of MNPs, the inner ones (with a complete number of neighbors) are by far dominant over the outer ones. Therefore, the time-dependent analysis will be performed only for such inner nanoparticles with Stoner–Wohlfarth-like behavior, sensing the interparticle dipolar
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Published 24 Jun 2019

Photoactive nanoarchitectures based on clays incorporating TiO2 and ZnO nanoparticles

  • Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky,
  • Pilar Aranda,
  • Marwa Akkari,
  • Nithima Khaorapapong and
  • Makoto Ogawa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1140–1156, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.114

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  • for the incorporation of additional active species, e.g, NPs or organic and biological species, for the production of multifunctional nanoplatforms as components of sensing devices and solar cells. Schematic representation of the crystal structures of the following clay minerals: kaolinite (A
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Tailoring the stability/aggregation of one-dimensional TiO2(B)/titanate nanowires using surfactants

  • Atiđa Selmani,
  • Johannes Lützenkirchen,
  • Kristina Kučanda,
  • Dario Dabić,
  • Engelbert Redel,
  • Ida Delač Marion,
  • Damir Kralj,
  • Darija Domazet Jurašin and
  • Maja Dutour Sikirić

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1024–1037, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.103

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  • -Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Sensing Devices, Institute of Physics, Bijenička 46, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia, Laboratory for Precipitation Processes, Division of Materials Chemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička Cesta 54, 10000
  • by the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Sensing Devices (ERDF Grant No. KK.01.1.1.01.0001). E.R. thanks KIT and CMM for sustainable research funding. Support from KNMF (Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility) is gratefully acknowledge.
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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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  • of proteins. As the sensing in this type of structures is governed by the interaction between the evanescent field going into the cladding and the target analytes, scanning near-field optical microscopy has been used to characterize the profile of that evanescent field. The study confirms the strong
  • exponential decrease of the signal as it goes into the cladding. This means that biorecognition events must occur as close to the PBG structure surface as possible in order to obtain the maximum sensing response. Within this context, the PBG biosensor has been biofunctionalized with half-antibodies specific
  • 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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Published 26 Apr 2019

Fabrication of silver nanoisland films by pulsed laser deposition for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

  • Bogusław Budner,
  • Mariusz Kuźma,
  • Barbara Nasiłowska,
  • Bartosz Bartosewicz,
  • Malwina Liszewska and
  • Bartłomiej J. Jankiewicz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 882–893, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.89

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  • . Keywords: nanofabrication; pulsed laser deposition; SERS substrates; silver nanoisland films; surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Introduction In recent years, SERS has been intensively investigated as a sensing tool in many applications [1][2][3]. Of particular interest
  • ][8][9], photovoltaics [10] or optical sensing through localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) [11]. It is therefore not surprising that quite a number of studies have been initiated and performed in order to design and fabricate highly active SERS substrates based on metallic nanoparticles and
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