Lateral flow test engineering and lessons learned from COVID-19

J Budd, BS Miller, NE Weckman, D Cherkaoui… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The acceptability and feasibility of large-scale testing with lateral flow tests (LFTs) for clinical
and public health purposes has been demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic. LFTs …

Plasmonic fluorescence enhancement in diagnostics for clinical tests at point‐of‐care: A review of recent technologies

D Semeniak, DF Cruz, A Chilkoti… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorescence‐based biosensors have widely been used in the life‐sciences and biomedical
applications due to their low limit of detection and a diverse selection of fluorophores that …

Portable smartphone platform based on aggregation-induced enhanced emission carbon dots for ratiometric quantitative sensing of fluoride ions

J Liu, Y Zhan, B Qiu, Z Lin, L Guo - ACS sensors, 2023 - ACS Publications
The development of an instrument-free, on-site, real-time, sensitive, and visualized fluoride-
ion (F–) content rapid detection strategy is crucial to ensuring the health of the population …

Plasmon–exciton interactions: spontaneous emission and strong coupling

H Wei, X Yan, Y Niu, Q Li, Z Jia… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The extraordinary optical properties of surface plasmons in metal nanostructures provide the
possibilities to enhance and accelerate the spontaneous emission, and manipulate the …

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer at the single-molecule level

T Ha, J Fei, S Schmid, NK Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a powerful spectroscopic method for
measuring distances in the 2–8 nm range. Often, conformational changes and molecular …

Dual-wavelength metalens enables Epi-fluorescence detection from single molecules

A Barulin, Y Kim, DK Oh, J Jang, H Park, J Rho… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy is at the heart of molecular biophysics research
and the most sensitive biosensing assays. The growing demand for precision medicine and …

Ultrafast dense DNA functionalization of quantum dots and rods for scalable 2D array fabrication with nanoscale precision

C Chen, X Luo, AEK Kaplan, MG Bawendi… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Scalable fabrication of two-dimensional (2D) arrays of quantum dots (QDs) and quantum
rods (QRs) with nanoscale precision is required for numerous device applications. However …

DNA self-assembly of single molecules with deterministic position and orientation

AK Adamczyk, TAPM Huijben, M Sison, A Di Luca… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
An ideal nanofabrication method should allow the organization of nanoparticles and
molecules with nanometric positional precision, stoichiometric control, and well-defined …

Gold nanorod DNA origami antennas for 3 orders of magnitude fluorescence enhancement in NIR

K Trofymchuk, K Kołątaj, V Glembockyte, F Zhu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
DNA origami has taken a leading position in organizing materials at the nanoscale for
various applications such as manipulation of light by exploiting plasmonic nanoparticles. We …

Modular DNA-origami-based nanoarrays enhance cell binding affinity through the “lock-and-key” interaction

M Mao, Z Lin, L Chen, Z Zou, J Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Surface proteins of cells are generally recognized through receptor–ligand interactions
(RLIs) in disease diagnosis, but their nonuniform spatial distribution and higher-order …