scholarly journals Advances in Nanotechnology-Based Biosensing of Immunoregulatory Cytokines

Biosensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 364
Author(s):  
Warangkana Lohcharoenkal ◽  
Zareen Abbas ◽  
Yon Rojanasakul
Keyword(s):  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
Response Assessment ◽  
Disease Diagnosis ◽  
Cytokine Detection ◽  
Electrical And Magnetic Properties ◽  
Small Proteins ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Metal Metal

Cytokines are a large group of small proteins secreted by immune and non-immune cells in response to external stimuli. Much attention has been given to the application of cytokines’ detection in early disease diagnosis/monitoring and therapeutic response assessment. To date, a wide range of assays are available for cytokines detection. However, in specific applications, multiplexed or continuous measurements of cytokines with wearable biosensing devices are highly desirable. For such efforts, various nanomaterials have been extensively investigated due to their extraordinary properties, such as high surface area and controllable particle size and shape, which leads to their tunable optical emission, electrical, and magnetic properties. Different types of nanomaterials such as noble metal, metal oxide, and carbon nanoparticles have been explored for various biosensing applications. Advances in nanomaterial synthesis and device development have led to significant progress in pushing the limit of cytokine detection. This article reviews currently used methods for cytokines detection and new nanotechnology-based biosensors for ultrasensitive cytokine detection.

scholarly journals A Review on Biosensors and Recent Development of Nanostructured Materials-Enabled Biosensors

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1109
Author(s):  
Varnakavi. Naresh ◽  
Nohyun Lee
Keyword(s):  
High Surface ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Biological Response ◽  
Volume Ratio ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Disease Diagnosis ◽  
Electrical Signal ◽  
Detection Sensitivity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Color Tunability

A biosensor is an integrated receptor-transducer device, which can convert a biological response into an electrical signal. The design and development of biosensors have taken a center stage for researchers or scientists in the recent decade owing to the wide range of biosensor applications, such as health care and disease diagnosis, environmental monitoring, water and food quality monitoring, and drug delivery. The main challenges involved in the biosensor progress are (i) the efficient capturing of biorecognition signals and the transformation of these signals into electrochemical, electrical, optical, gravimetric, or acoustic signals (transduction process), (ii) enhancing transducer performance i.e., increasing sensitivity, shorter response time, reproducibility, and low detection limits even to detect individual molecules, and (iii) miniaturization of the biosensing devices using micro-and nano-fabrication technologies. Those challenges can be met through the integration of sensing technology with nanomaterials, which range from zero- to three-dimensional, possessing a high surface-to-volume ratio, good conductivities, shock-bearing abilities, and color tunability. Nanomaterials (NMs) employed in the fabrication and nanobiosensors include nanoparticles (NPs) (high stability and high carrier capacity), nanowires (NWs) and nanorods (NRs) (capable of high detection sensitivity), carbon nanotubes (CNTs) (large surface area, high electrical and thermal conductivity), and quantum dots (QDs) (color tunability). Furthermore, these nanomaterials can themselves act as transduction elements. This review summarizes the evolution of biosensors, the types of biosensors based on their receptors, transducers, and modern approaches employed in biosensors using nanomaterials such as NPs (e.g., noble metal NPs and metal oxide NPs), NWs, NRs, CNTs, QDs, and dendrimers and their recent advancement in biosensing technology with the expansion of nanotechnology.

Understanding Micro-Droplet Interface Bilayers for Developing Bioinspired Sensors

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guru Venkatesan ◽  
Andy Sarles
Keyword(s):  
Water Droplet ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Material System ◽  
Modes Of Operation ◽  
New Class ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Droplet Sizes ◽  
The Stability

Droplet-based biomolecular arrays form the basis for a new class of bioinspired material system, whereby decreasing the sizes of the droplets and increasing the number of droplets can lead to higher functional density for the array. In this paper, we report on a non-microfluidic approach to form and connect nanoliter-to-femtoliter, lipid-coated aqueous droplets in oil to form micro-droplet interface bilayers (μDIBs). Two different modes of operation are reported for dispensing a wide range of droplet sizes (2–200μm radius). Due to the high surface-area-to-volume ratios of microdroplets at these length scales, droplet shrinking is prominent, which affects the stability and lifetime of the bilayer. To better quantify these effects, we measure the shrinkage rates for 8 different water droplet/oil compositions and study the effect of lipid placement and lipid type on morphological changes to μDIBs.

scholarly journals Recent Advances in Applications of Ceramic Nanofibers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuray Kizildag
Keyword(s):  
High Surface ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Water Remediation ◽  
Mechanical And Thermal Properties ◽  
Chemical Erosion ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ceramic Nanofibers

Ceramic materials are well known for their hardness, inertness, superior mechanical and thermal properties, resistance against chemical erosion and corrosion. Ceramic nanofibers were first manufactured through a combination of electrospinning with sol–gel method in 2002. The electrospun ceramic nanofibers display unprecedented properties such as high surface area, length, thermo-mechanical properties, and hierarchically porous structure which make them candidates for a wide range of applications such as tissue engineering, sensors, water remediation, energy storage, electromagnetic shielding, thermal insulation materials, etc. This chapter focuses on the most recent advances in the applications of ceramic nanofibers.

scholarly journals Removal of organic contaminant by municipal sewage sludge-derived hydrochar: kinetics, thermodynamics and mechanisms

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 947-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Wei ◽  
Yitao Liu ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Hui Yu ◽  
Yongzhen Peng
Keyword(s):  
Sewage Sludge ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Hydrothermal Carbonization ◽  
Municipal Sewage ◽  
Municipal Sewage Sludge ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Pseudo Second Order ◽  
Physical Interactions

Abstract In this work, a microporous municipal sewage sludge-derived hydrochar (MSSH) with relatively high surface area and abundant surface organic functional groups was produced through hydrothermal carbonization. Based on the adsorption results over a wide range of conditions, the prepared MSSH was suggested as a promising adsorbent for CV because of its high and efficient adsorption capability. The experimental data were fitted to several kinetic models. Based on calculated respective parameters such as rate constants, equilibrium adsorption capacities and correlation coefficients, the pseudo second-order model proved the best in describing the adsorption behavior of MSSH. Through kinetics, thermodynamic modeling studies and material characterization, a plausible adsorption process was discussed under the conditions used in this study. It can be confirmed that the adsorption of CV onto MSSH is via both physical interactions (electrostatic interaction and Van der Waals' force) and chemical interactions (formation of H-bonding).

Transition metal/metal oxide modified MCM-41 for pollutant degradation and hydrogen energy production: a review

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (102) ◽  
pp. 83707-83724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipti Prava Sahoo ◽  
Dharitri Rath ◽  
Binita Nanda ◽  
K. M. Parida
Keyword(s):  
Catalytic Activity ◽  
Metal Oxide ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Hydrogen Energy ◽  
Pollutant Degradation ◽  
Metal Metal ◽  
Catalytic Applications ◽  
Mcm 41

Metal/metal oxide modified MCM-41 materials are suitable for various catalytic applications. The high surface area, mesoscopic pore size and tunable pore volume of the materials play a key role in enhancing the catalytic activity.

scholarly journals Starch-Based Hybrid Nanomaterials for Environmental Remediation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashoka Gamage ◽  
Thiviya Punniamoorthy ◽  
Terrence Madhujith
Keyword(s):  
Metal Oxide ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Membrane Filtration ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Volume Ratio ◽  
Hybrid Nanomaterials ◽  
Metal Metal

Environmental pollution is becoming a major global issue with increasing anthropogenic activities that release massive toxic pollutants into the land, air, and water. Nanomaterials have gained the most popularity in the last decades over conventional methods because of their high surface area to volume ratio and higher reactivity. Nanomaterials including metal, metal oxide, zero-valent ions, carbonaceous nanomaterials, and polymers function as adsorbents, catalysts, photocatalysts, membrane (filtration), disinfectants, and sensors in the detection and removal of various pollutants such as heavy metals, organic pollutants, dyes, industrial effluents, and pathogenic microbial. Polymer-inorganic hybrid materials or nanocomposites are highly studied for the removal of various contaminants. Starch, a heteropolysaccharide, is a natural biopolymer generally incorporated with other metal, metal oxide, and other polymeric nanoparticles and has been reported in various environmental remediation applications as a low-cost alternative for petroleum-based polymers. Therefore, this chapter mainly highlights the various nanomaterials used in environmental remediation, starch-based hybrid nanomaterials, and their application and limitations.

scholarly journals Hydrothermal preparation of Phyllostachys pubescens – nanocellulose/graphene aerogel as a simple device for supercapacitors

BioResources ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 677-690
Author(s):  
Yan-Yun Wang ◽  
Qing-Jin Fu ◽  
Xiao Ning ◽  
Ge-Gu Chen ◽  
Chun-Li Yao
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
High Specific Capacitance ◽  
Phyllostachys Pubescens ◽  
Graphene Aerogel ◽  
Hydrothermal Preparation ◽  
Energy Devices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Extreme Stability

Bamboo nanocellulose can be regarded as a promising biomass material for the preparation of sustainable energy devices due to its unique structure, excellent properties, and wide range of sources. A highly conductive electrochemical energy storage was synthesized due to the excellent electrical conductivity of graphene and the high surface area of nanocellulose and graphene, which was beneficial for producing a network structure. The symmetric capacitor assembled from the Phyllostachys pubescens nanocellulose/graphene aerogel (CGA) electrode exhibited a high specific capacitance of 125.5 F/g at 5 mV/s and extreme stability of 98.3% capacitance retention ratio after 5000 cycles at 2 A/g. This nanocellulose-graphene electrode showed potential for future high-performance supercapacitors.

scholarly journals Design and Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials for Sensor Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Naumih M. Noah
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Nanotubes ◽  
Nanostructured Materials ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Metal Oxide Nanoparticles ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Detection Sensitivity ◽  
High Electron ◽  
Sensor Applications ◽  
Metal Metal

There has been an increasing demand for the development of sensor devices with improved characteristics such as sensitivity, low cost, faster response, reliability, rapider recovery, reduced size, in situ analysis, and simple operation. Nanostructured materials have shown great potential in improving these properties for chemical and biological sensors. There are different nanostructured materials which have been used in manufacturing nanosensors which include nanoscale wires (capability of high detection sensitivity), carbon nanotubes (very high surface area and high electron conductivity), thin films, metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, polymer, and biomaterials. This review provides different methods which have been used in the synthesis and fabrication of these nanostructured materials followed by an extensive review of the recent developments of metal, metal oxides, carbon nanotubes, and polymer nanostructured materials in sensor applications.

Synthesis and characterization of mesalamine silica nanoparticles

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balaji Maddiboyina ◽  
Ramya Krishna Nakkala ◽  
Prasanna Kumar Desu ◽  
Vikas Jhawat
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Silica Nanoparticles ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Silica Nanoparticle ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Infrared Spectrometry ◽  
Burst Release ◽  
Wide Range

Background: Nanoparticles made of silica are new materials that can be used in a wide range of drug delivery methods because they are biocompatible and biodegradable. Mesalamine, a classic water-soluble medication, remains loaded into the synthesized silica nanoparticle and is considered for sustained release proficiency. Precipitation approach using high surface area and pore volume tetraethyl orthosilicate yielded mesalamine-loaded silica nanoparticles. Methods: The drug-loaded nanoparticle was created and produced using two different techniques. Fourier transform infrared spectrometry, differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray powder diffraction, Brauer Emmett teller, scanning electron microscopy, particle size measurements, and dissolution investigations have all been used to analyse the substance in some way or another. Results: Because of the high surface area, well-known results like the complete silica nanoparticle created using method-2 remained mesoporous. The onset peak of the method-2 formulation's DSC was 182.27°c, and the offset peak was 192.14°c, consistent with the DSC results. The particle size range varies from 205-225nm. The results demonstrate that the uptake of the mesalamine by burst release it for 30 minutes initial, followed by sustained maintenance of dose even after 240 minutes. The results indicate that the loading process has an effect on the extent of loading. When silica nanoparticles were impregnated with mesalamine, the amount of the drug contained was significantly higher than when they were wetted. Conclusion: In addition, the XRD results show that both the pure mesalamine and the formulation did not show any polymorphic deviation.

scholarly journals Optical-Based (Bio) Sensing Systems Using Magnetic Nanoparticles

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Recep Üzek ◽  
Esma Sari ◽  
Arben Merkoçi
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Nanoparticles ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
High Surface ◽  
High Surface Area ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy ◽  
High Mass ◽  
Sensing Systems ◽  
Sensing Platform ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman

In recent years, various reports related to sensing application research have suggested that combining the synergistic impacts of optical, electrical or magnetic properties in a single technique can lead to a new multitasking platform. Owing to their unique features of the magnetic moment, biocompatibility, ease of surface modification, chemical stability, high surface area, high mass transference, magnetic nanoparticles have found a wide range of applications in various fields, especially in sensing systems. The present review is comprehensive information about magnetic nanoparticles utilized in the optical sensing platform, broadly categorized into four types: surface plasmon resonance (SPR), surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), fluorescence spectroscopy and near-infrared spectroscopy and imaging (NIRS) that are commonly used in various (bio) analytical applications. The review also includes some conclusions on the state of the art in this field and future aspects.

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