Application of Biomimetic Nanomaterials in Biological Detection and the Intelligent Recognition Method of Nanoparticle Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Ying He

New nanomaterials (metal nanoclusters, graphene, etc.) are favored by researchers due to their unique properties and are widely used in biomedical detection. The excellent fluorescence characteristics of gold nanoclusters are utilized to develop a fast and highly sensitive bionic nanomaterial with non-label and dual functions, which can detect silver ions and mercury ions and study the particularity of TEM nanoparticle images. The particle segmentation of TEM nanoparticle images is studied to compare the traditional watershed algorithm and watershed transformation algorithm. The experiment results show that silver ions can enhance the fluorescence of gold nanoclusters to form gold-silver nanoclusters with strong yellow fluorescence, and mercury ions can quickly weaken the fluorescence of gold-silver nanoclusters. Based on the biomimetic nanomaterials, a dual-function fluorescent probe is designed to detect silver ions and mercury ions in lake with detection accuracy of 8 nM and 33 nM respectively; the sensing excitation of the fluorescent probe is further analyzed. Because the metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) effect enables the silver element and Au nanoparticles to form fluorescence-enhancing effect, the high metalphilic interaction between mercury ions and silver ions quenches the fluorescence effect of gold nanocluster; the rapid watershed transformation/region fusion method can achieve better particle image segmentation combined with the image segmentation algorithms of different TEM nanoparticles, which can be better applied to the characterization analysis of the preparation of gold nanomaterials.

RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (29) ◽  
pp. 17694-17703
Author(s):  
Fengyuan Shan ◽  
Luca Panariello ◽  
Gaowei Wu ◽  
Asterios Gavriilidis ◽  
Helen H. Fielding ◽  
...  

The interaction of methylene blue and crystal violet dyes with a range of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), gold nanoclusters and gold/silver nanoclusters is reported.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (47) ◽  
pp. 6713-6718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Pang ◽  
Siyu Liu

Bimetallic gold/silver nanoclusters were synthesized in aqueous solution with lysozyme as a stabilizing and reducing agent.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 4095
Author(s):  
Dyah Ika Krisnawati ◽  
Po-Hsuan Hsu ◽  
Yu-Hsiang Lin ◽  
Moh Alimansur ◽  
Didik Susetiyanto Atmojo ◽  
...  

The bactericidal effects of fluorescent metal nanoclusters have impeded their bacterial bioimaging applications due to the reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation that is induced by the nanoclusters in bacteria to cause bacterial death. Herein, an ROS scavenger of cysteine was exploited as a surface ligand to prepare cysteine-conjugated gold nanoclusters (Cys–AuNCs) and cysteine-conjugated silver nanoclusters (Cys–AgNCs) using a facile hydrothermal approach. The structural and optical characterizations demonstrated successful syntheses of Cys–AuNCs and Cys–AgNCs. With the same weight concentration, the bactericidal effect increased in the order of Cys–AuNCs, Cys–AgNCs, and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), according to the results of the bacterial growth curves. Furthermore, based on the results of the standard colony-counting method, the Cys–AuNCs revealed the best biocompatibility compared to those of the Cys–AgNCs and AgNPs in Escherichia coli (E. coli). The superior biocompatibility of the Cys–AuNCs can be attributed to the use of the ligand of cysteine as an ROS scavenger to reduce ROS in E. coli. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) analyses indicated that the use of the ROS scavenger cysteine as the surface ligand of the Cys–AuNCs eliminated the ROS production induced by the Cys–AuNCs in E. coli. The biocompatible Cys–AuNCs were also confirmed as a fluorescent probe using confocal microscopy. Highly biocompatible Cys–AuNCs could be a potential fluorescent probe in the application of bacterial bioimaging.


2020 ◽  
pp. 128694
Author(s):  
Yongqiang Shi ◽  
Wenting Li ◽  
Xuping Feng ◽  
Lei Lin ◽  
Pengcheng Nie ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 282 ◽  
pp. 78-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wang ◽  
Hai-Xia Cao ◽  
Yu-Sheng He ◽  
Chang-Gang Pan ◽  
Ting-Kai Sun ◽  
...  

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