Silica nanowires: Growth, integration, and sensing applications

A Kaushik, R Kumar, E Huey, S Bhansali, N Nair… - Microchimica Acta, 2014 - Springer
Abstract This review (with 129 refs.) gives an overview on how the integration of silica
nanowires (NWs) into micro-scale devices has resulted, in recent years, in simple yet robust …

Chip based single cell analysis for nanotoxicity assessment

P Shah, A Kaushik, X Zhu, C Zhang, CZ Li - Analyst, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanomaterials, because of their tunable properties and performances, have been utilized
extensively in everyday life related consumable products and technology. On exposure …

Electrical impedance tomography for real-time and label-free cellular viability assays of 3D tumour spheroids

H Wu, Y Yang, PO Bagnaninchi, J Jia - Analyst, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
There is currently a need to culture cells in 3D to better mimic the behaviour of cells growing
in the natural environment. In parallel, this calls for novel technologies to assess cell growth …

Monitoring the spreading stage of lung cells by silicon nanowire electrical cell impedance sensor for cancer detection purposes

H Abiri, M Abdolahad, M Gharooni, SA Hosseini… - Biosensors and …, 2015 - Elsevier
We developed a silicon nanowire based electrical cell impedance sensor (SiNW-ECIS) as
an instrument that detects cancerous cultured living lung cells by monitoring their spreading …

Structure model and toxicity of the product of biodissolution of chrysotile asbestos in the lungs

AF Gualtieri, G Lusvardi, A Pedone… - Chemical Research …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Asbestos is a commercial term indicating six natural silicates with asbestiform crystal habit.
Of these, five are double-chain silicates (amphibole) and one is a layer silicate (serpentine …

A review of the ecotoxicological effects of nanowires

JI Kwak, YJ An - International journal of environmental science and …, 2015 - Springer
We briefly reviewed the existing research on the ecotoxicity of nanowires and suggested
directions for further study. Nanowires are technological innovations that can benefit …

S. cerevisiae whole-cell based capacitive biochip for the detection of toxicity of different forms of carbon nanotubes

A Pandey, RS Chouhan, Y Gurbuz, JH Niazi… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2015 - Elsevier
A whole-cell based capacitive biochip (WCB) was employed for detecting nanotoxicity of
different types of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The WCB was made of arrays of capacitors that …

Label-free monitoring of 3D tissue models via electrical impedance spectroscopy

F Alexander, S Eggert, D Price - Label-Free Monitoring of Cells in vitro, 2019 - Springer
There is a strong tendency in in vitro testing of drugs or toxins to use 3D tissue models as
biological test objects rather than 2D cell monolayers. The latter have been used with …

Online, label-free monitoring of organ-on-a-chip models: The case for microphysiometry

FA Alexander, J Wiest - … Conference of the IEEE Engineering in …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Primarily composed of cells on a porous membrane embedded in microfluidic channels,
organ-on-a-Chip (OOC) models are coming into the spotlight as an innovative, new …

Design and validation of a multi-electrode bioimpedance system for enhancing spatial resolution of cellular impedance studies

FA Alexander, M Celestin, DT Price, M Nanjundan… - Analyst, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper reports the design and evaluation of a multi-electrode design that improves upon
the statistical significance and spatial resolution of cellular impedance data measured using …