Sensors and biosensors based on metal oxide nanomaterials

B Liu, J Liu - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanomaterials have greatly boosted the biosensor field taking advantage of their optical,
catalytic, magnetic and adsorption properties. While noble metal and carbon-based …

The arsenic-binding aptamer cannot bind arsenic: critical evaluation of aptamer selection and binding

C Zong, J Liu - Analytical chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
An arsenic-binding aptamer named Ars-3 was reported in 2009, and it has been used for
detection of As (III) in more than two dozen papers. In this work, we performed extensive …

Fluoride-capped nanoceria as a highly efficient oxidase-mimicking nanozyme: inhibiting product adsorption and increasing oxygen vacancies

Y Zhao, Y Wang, A Mathur, Y Wang, V Maheshwari… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanozymes aim to mimic enzyme activities using nanomaterials. Nanoceria (CeO2
nanoparticles) is an important model nanozyme for its rich redox chemistry. In particular, its …

Nanoceria as a DNase I mimicking nanozyme

F Xu, Q Lu, PJJ Huang, J Liu - Chemical Communications, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We herein communicate the DNase I like activity of nanoceria (CeO2 nanoparticles). Both
CeO2 and DNase I cleave polyadenine (poly-A) DNA down to∼ 5-mer fragments as the …

Enhanced biosorption and electrochemical performance of sugarcane bagasse derived a polylactic acid-graphene oxide-CeO2 composite

F Mohammad, T Arfin, HA Al-lohedan - Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In view of the methyl orange (MO) dye on everyday applications in the textile, food, leather,
paper, printing, and pharmaceuticals industry, in addition to its toxic behaviour on human …

Effects of small molecules on DNA adsorption by gold nanoparticles and a case study of tris (2-carboxyethyl) phosphine (TCEP)

R Wu, LP Jiang, JJ Zhu, J Liu - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
DNA-functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) often encounter various small molecules
and ions such as backfilling agents, bifunctional cross-linkers, stabilizers, and molecules …

Phosphate assay kit in one cell for electrochemical detection of intracellular phosphate ions at single cells

H Xu, D Yang, D Jiang, HY Chen - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, phosphate assay kit in one cell is realized for the electrochemical detection of
intracellular phosphate ions at single cells. The components of the phosphate assay kit …

Spectrophotometric determination of the activity of alkaline phosphatase and detection of its inhibitors by exploiting the pyrophosphate-accelerated oxidase-like …

P Ni, J Xie, C Chen, Y Jiang, Z Zhao, Y Zhang, Y Lu… - Microchimica Acta, 2019 - Springer
The oxidase-like activity of nanoceria is low. This limits its practical applications. It is
demonstrated here that pyrophosphate ion (PPi) can improve the oxidase-like activity of …