Synthesis, assembly, and applications of hybrid nanostructures for biosensing

S Zhang, R Geryak, J Geldmeier, S Kim… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The robust, sensitive, and selective detection of targeted biomolecules in their native
environment by prospective nanostructures holds much promise for real-time, accurate, and …

Advanced scanning probe lithography

R Garcia, AW Knoll, E Riedo - Nature nanotechnology, 2014 - nature.com
The nanoscale control afforded by scanning probe microscopes has prompted the
development of a wide variety of scanning-probe-based patterning methods. Some of these …

Acceleration of Diels-Alder reactions by mechanical distortion

YS Zholdassov, L Yuan, SR Garcia, RW Kwok… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Challenges in quantifying how force affects bond formation have hindered the widespread
adoption of mechanochemistry. We used parallel tip-based methods to determine reaction …

Controlling motion at the nanoscale: rise of the molecular machines

JM Abendroth, OS Bushuyev, PS Weiss, CJ Barrett - ACS nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
As our understanding and control of intra-and intermolecular interactions evolve, ever more
complex molecular systems are synthesized and assembled that are capable of performing …

Hierarchically structured vertical gold nanowire array-based wearable pressure sensors for wireless health monitoring

B Zhu, Y Ling, LW Yap, M Yang, F Lin… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We have recently demonstrated that vertically aligned gold nanowires (v-AuNWs) are
outstanding material candidates for wearable biomedical sensors toward real-time and …

Progress in surface enhanced Raman scattering molecular sensing: A review

P Mandal, BS Tewari - Surfaces and Interfaces, 2022 - Elsevier
Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) technique is a very powerful spectroscopic
technique that has been used to investigate molecular signature by detecting vibrational …

Halide perovskite nanocrystal arrays: Multiplexed synthesis and size-dependent emission

JS Du, D Shin, TK Stanev, C Musumeci, Z Xie… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Halide perovskites have exceptional optoelectronic properties, but a poor understanding of
the relationship between crystal dimensions, composition, and properties limits their use in …

Dynamic metal–phenolic coordination complexes for versatile surface nanopatterning

C Chen, M Lin, C Wahl, Y Li, W Zhou… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report a general nanopatterning strategy that takes advantage of the dynamic
coordination bonds between polyphenols and metal ions (eg, Fe3+ and Cu2+) to create …

Tip-enhanced sub-femtomolar steroid immunosensing via micropyramidal flexible conducting polymer electrodes for at-home monitoring of salivary sex hormones

Z Li, F Chen, N Zhu, L Zhang, Z Xie - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Noninvasive testing and continuous monitoring of ultralow-concentration hormones in
biofluids have attracted increasing interest for health management and personalized …

Swimming microrobot optical nanoscopy

J Li, W Liu, T Li, I Rozen, J Zhao, B Bahari, B Kante… - Nano Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
Optical imaging plays a fundamental role in science and technology but is limited by the
ability of lenses to resolve small features below the fundamental diffraction limit. A variety of …