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2022 ◽  
Vol 354 ◽  
pp. 131205
Author(s):  
Heping Wu ◽  
Gang Niu ◽  
Wei Ren ◽  
Luyue Jiang ◽  
Jinyan Zhao ◽  
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Nanophotonics ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiliang Zhang ◽  
Feng Zhao ◽  
Renxian Gao ◽  
Chih-Yu Jao ◽  
Churong Ma ◽  
...  

Abstract Plasmonic sensors exhibit tremendous potential to accomplish real-time, label-free, and high-sensitivity biosensing. Gold nanohole array (GNA) is one of the classic plasmonic nanostructures that can be readily fabricated and integrated into microfluidic platforms for a variety of applications. Even though GNA has been widely studied, new phenomena and applications are still emerging continuously expanding its capabilities. In this article, we demonstrated narrow-band high-order resonances enabled by Rayleigh anomaly in the nanohole arrays that are fabricated by scalable colloidal lithography. We fabricated large-area GNAs with different hole diameters, and investigated their transmission characteristics both numerically and experimentally. We showed that mode hybridization between the plasmon mode of the nanoholes and Rayleigh anomaly of the array could give rise to high-quality decapole resonance with a unique nearfield profile. We experimentally achieved a refractive index sensitivity, i.e., RIS up to 407 nm/RIU. More importantly, we introduced a spectrometer-free refractive index sensing based on lens-free smartphone imaging of GNAs with (intensity) sensitivity up to 137%/RIU. Using this platform, we realized the label-free detection of BSA molecules with concentration as low as 10−8 M. We believe our work could pave the way for highly sensitive and compact point-of-care devices with cost-effective and high-throughput plasmonic chips.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yizhe Zhang ◽  
David A Weitz

We propose a novel method that can detect DNA with high specificity at the single-molecule level by employing the in vitro N-hybrid strategy realized in sub-picoliter microfluidic drops. It detects target DNA based on the specific interactions of the target-encoded proteins with their partner molecules, and achieves single-molecule sensitivity via signal-transduction and signal-amplification during gene-expression processes in a sub-picoliter droplet, therefore effectively avoiding complicated procedures in labeling-based methods or biases and artifacts in PCR-based methods.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Cheng-Chuan Chen ◽  
Shu-Cheng Lo ◽  
Pei-Kuen Wei

Label-free surface plasmon resonance (SPR) detection of mercuric ions in various aqueous solutions, using capped gold nanoslit arrays combined with electrochemical (EC) sensing technique, is demonstrated. The nanoslit arrays are fabricated on flexible cyclo-olefin polymer substrates by a nanoimprinting lithography method. The EC and SPR signals for the investigation of current responses and transmission SPR spectra are simultaneously measured during metal ions electrodeposition. Glycerol–water solution is studied to evaluate the resonant peak wavelength sensitivity (480.3 nm RIU−1) with a FOM of 40.0 RIU−1 and the obtained intensity sensitivity is 1819.9%. The ferrocyanide/ferricyanide redox couple performs the diffusion controlled electrochemical processes (R2 = 0.99). By investigating the SPR intensity changes and wavelength shifts of various mercuric ion concentrations, the optical properties are evaluated under chronoamperometric conditions. The sensors are evaluated in the detection range between 100 μM and 10 nM with a detection limit of 1 μM. The time dependence of SPR signals and the selectivity of 10 μM Hg2+ in the presence of 10 μM interfering metal ion species from Ca2+, Co2+, Ni2+, Na+, Cu2+, Pb2 + and Mn2+ are determined. The capped gold nanoslit arrays show the selectivity of Hg2+ and the EC sensing method is effectively utilized to aqueous Hg2+ detection. This study provides a label-free detection technique of mercuric ions and this developed system is potentially applicable to detecting chemicals and biomolecules.


Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Nikita Sitkov ◽  
Tatiana Zimina ◽  
Alexey Kolobov ◽  
Evgeny Sevostyanov ◽  
Valentina Trushlyakova ◽  
...  

A study of the peculiarities and a comparative analysis of the technologies used for the fabrication of elements of novel hybrid microfluidic biochips for express biomedical analysis have been carried out. The biochips were designed with an incorporated microfluidic system, which enabled an accumulation of the target compounds in a biological fluid to be achieved, thus increasing the biochip system’s sensitivity and even implementing a label-free design of the detection unit. The multilevel process of manufacturing a microfluidic system of a given topology for label-free fluorometric detection of protein structures is presented. The technological process included the chemical modification of the working surface of glass substrates by silanization using (3-aminopropyl) trimethoxysilane (APTMS), formation of the microchannels, for which SU-8 technologies and a last generation dry film photoresist were studied and compared. The solid-state phosphor layers were deposited using three methods: drop application; airbrushing; and mechanical spraying onto the adhesive surface. The processes of sealing the system, installing input ports, and packaging using micro-assembly technologies are described. The technological process has been optimized and the biochip was implemented and tested. The presented system can be used to design novel high-performance diagnostic tools that implement the function of express detection of protein markers of diseases and create low-power multimodal, highly intelligent portable analytical decision-making systems in medicine.


Author(s):  
Xiaoying Zhu ◽  
Hao Yang ◽  
Mian Wang ◽  
Minghua Wu ◽  
Mohammad Rizwan Khan ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongki Lee ◽  
Joel Berk ◽  
Aaron Webster ◽  
Donghyun Kim ◽  
Matthew R Foreman

Abstract We report sensing of single nanoparticles using disordered metallic nanoisland substrates supporting surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Speckle patterns arising from leakage radiation of elastically scattered SPPs provides a unique fingerprint of the scattering microstructure at the sensor surface. Experimental measurements of the speckle decorrelation are presented and shown to enable detection of sorption of individual gold nanoparticles and polystyrene beads. Our approach is verified through bright-field and fluorescence imaging of particles adhering to the nanoisland substrate.


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