1. INTRODUCTION Detection of chemical and biological agents plays a fundamental role in
biomedical, forensic and environmental sciences 1− 4 as well as in anti bioterrorism …

Currently a popular area in nanomedicine is the implementation of plasmonic gold
nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis and photothermal therapy, attributed to the intriguing …

Colorimetric detection of target analytes with high specificity and sensitivity is of fundamental
importance to clinical and personalized point-of-care diagnostics. Because of their …

Surface plasmons (SPs) are coherent oscillations of conduction electrons on a metal surface
excited by electromagnetic radiation at a metal-dielectric interface. The growing field of …

The past few decades have witnessed significant advances in the development of
functionalized gold nanoparticles for applications in various fields such as chemistry …

Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the design and study of nanomaterials
geared towards biological and biomedical applications, most notable among these being …

This critical review covers the present state of the art in optical sensing of glucose. Following
an introduction into the significance of (continuous) sensing of glucose and a brief look back …

Cucurbit [n] urils (CB [n]) are macrocyclic host molecules with subnanometer dimensions
capable of binding to gold surfaces. Aggregation of gold nanoparticles with CB [n] produces …

We report on the use of amines as reducing agents in the formation of gold nanoparticles.
We can predict whether the amines will function as reducing agents in this reaction based …

Nanoparticle based platforms for identification of chemical and biological agents offer
substantial benefits to biomedical and environmental science. These platforms benefit from …