Towards microfluidic-based exosome isolation and detection for tumor therapy

J Wang, P Ma, DH Kim, BF Liu, U Demirci - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Exosomes are a class of cell-secreted, nano-sized extracellular vesicles with a bilayer
membrane structure of 30–150 nm in diameter. Their discovery and application have …

Metasurfaces for biomedical applications: imaging and sensing from a nanophotonics perspective

S Zhang, CL Wong, S Zeng, R Bi, K Tai, K Dholakia… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Metasurface is a recently developed nanophotonics concept to manipulate the properties of
light by replacing conventional bulky optical components with ultrathin (more than 104 times …

Advances in plasmonic technologies for point of care applications

O Tokel, F Inci, U Demirci - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Demand for accessible and affordable healthcare for infectious and chronic diseases
present significant challenges for providing high-value and effective healthcare. Traditional …

[HTML][HTML] Protein immobilization techniques for microfluidic assays

D Kim, AE Herr - Biomicrofluidics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Microfluidic systems have shown unequivocal performance improvements over conventional
bench-top assays across a range of performance metrics. For example, specific advances …

Engineering metallic nanostructures for plasmonics and nanophotonics

NC Lindquist, P Nagpal, KM McPeak… - Reports on Progress …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Metallic nanostructures now play an important role in many applications. In particular, for the
emerging fields of plasmonics and nanophotonics, the ability to engineer metals on …

Surface plasmon resonance based biosensor technique: a review

X Guo - Journal of biophotonics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Optical Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensors represent the most advanced and
developed optical label‐free biosensor technology. Optical SPR biosensors are a powerful …

Microfluidic chips for point‐of‐care immunodiagnostics

L Gervais, N De Rooij, E Delamarche - Advanced materials, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We might be at the turning point where research in microfluidics undertaken in academia
and industrial research laboratories, and substantially sponsored by public grants, may …

Recent developments in optical detection technologies in lab-on-a-chip devices for biosensing applications

NMM Pires, T Dong, U Hanke, N Hoivik - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
The field of microfluidics has yet to develop practical devices that provide real clinical value.
One of the main reasons for this is the difficulty in realizing low-cost, sensitive, reproducible …

Trends and challenges of refractometric nanoplasmonic biosensors: A review

MC Estevez, MA Otte, B Sepulveda, LM Lechuga - Analytica chimica acta, 2014 - Elsevier
Motivated by potential benefits such as sensor miniaturization, multiplexing opportunities
and higher sensitivities, refractometric nanoplasmonic biosensing has profiled itself in a …

Point-of-care biochemical assays using gold nanoparticle-implemented microfluidics

J Sun, Y Xianyu, X Jiang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the goals of point-of-care (POC) is a chip-based, miniaturized, portable, self-
containing system that allows the assay of proteins, nucleic acids, and cells in complex …