Recent advances in nanomedicine have shown that dramatic improvements in nanoparticle
therapeutics and diagnostics can be achieved through the use of disease specific targeting …

Gold nanostructures possess unique characteristics that enable their use as contrast agents,
as therapeutic entities, and as scaffolds to adhere functional molecules, therapeutic cargo …

Foodborne diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria pose a serious threat to human health.
Early and rapid detection of foodborne pathogens is urgently needed. The use of biosensors …

A new concept of optical encoding approach, surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-
fluorescence joint spectral encoding method (SFJSE), was demonstrated by using organic …

Abstract Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy is increasingly used as a sensitive
bioanalytical tool for detection of variety of analytes ranging from viruses and bacteria to …

Fluorescent microsphere (FM) is widely used as probe in immunochromatographic assay
(ICA). However, the performance of conventional FM is limited because of the aggregation …

Here we report the development of a programmable and fully automatic gold array-
embedded gradient microfluidic chip that integrates a gradient microfluidic device with gold …

Point-of-care (POC) diagnostic testing platforms are a growing sector of the healthcare
industry as they offer the advantages of rapid provision of results, ease of use, reduced cost …

The utility of biomarker detection in tomorrow's personalized health care field will mean early
and accurate diagnosis of many types of human physiological conditions and diseases. In …

The optical properties of Ag-coated polystyrene nanospheres can be varied by changing the
vapor deposition angle θ. When θ< 55°, a sharp absorbance spectrum is observed, and for …