An overview of functional nanoparticles as novel emerging antiviral therapeutic agents

L Chen, J Liang - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2020 - Elsevier
Research on highly effective antiviral drugs is essential for preventing the spread of
infections and reducing losses. Recently, many functional nanoparticles have been shown …

Scattering-based light microscopy: from metal nanoparticles to single proteins

L Priest, JS Peters, P Kukura - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Our ability to detect, image, and quantify nanoscopic objects and molecules with visible light
has undergone dramatic improvements over the past few decades. While fluorescence has …

Interferometric scattering microscopy: seeing single nanoparticles and molecules via Rayleigh scattering

RW Taylor, V Sandoghdar - Nano letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Fluorescence microscopy has been the workhorse for investigating optical phenomena at
the nanometer scale but this approach confronts several fundamental limits. As a result …

Silver nanoparticles as potential antiviral agents

S Galdiero, A Falanga, M Vitiello, M Cantisani, V Marra… - Molecules, 2011 - mdpi.com
Virus infections pose significant global health challenges, especially in view of the fact that
the emergence of resistant viral strains and the adverse side effects associated with …

Fluorescent imaging of single nanoparticles and viruses on a smart phone

Q Wei, H Qi, W Luo, D Tseng, SJ Ki, Z Wan… - ACS …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Optical imaging of nanoscale objects, whether it is based on scattering or fluorescence, is a
challenging task due to reduced detection signal-to-noise ratio and contrast at …

Handheld high-throughput plasmonic biosensor using computational on-chip imaging

AE Cetin, AF Coskun, BC Galarreta, M Huang… - Light: Science & …, 2014 - nature.com
We demonstrate a handheld on-chip biosensing technology that employs plasmonic
microarrays coupled with a lens-free computational imaging system towards multiplexed …

Optical imaging techniques for point-of-care diagnostics

H Zhu, SO Isikman, O Mudanyali, A Greenbaum… - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Improving access to effective and affordable healthcare has long been a global endeavor. In
this quest, the development of cost-effective and easy-to-use medical testing equipment that …

Label-free SARS-CoV-2 detection and classification using phase imaging with computational specificity

N Goswami, YR He, YH Deng, C Oh, N Sobh… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis revealed that fast, accurate, and scalable testing is
crucial for curbing the current impact and that of future pandemics. We propose an optical …

Overcoming multidrug resistance in bacteria through antibiotics delivery in surface-engineered nano-cargos: Recent developments for future nano-antibiotics

X Yang, W Ye, Y Qi, Y Ying, Z Xia - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the recent few decades, the increase in multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria has reached
an alarming rate and caused serious health problems. The incidence of infections due to …

Emerging applications of label-free optical biosensors

G Zanchetta, R Lanfranco, F Giavazzi, T Bellini… - …, 2017 - degruyter.com
Innovative technical solutions to realize optical biosensors with improved performance are
continuously proposed. Progress in material fabrication enables developing novel …