Conventional immunoassays suffer from at least one of these following limitations: long
processing time, high costs, poor user‐friendliness, technical complexity, poor sensitivity …

Despite massive growth in nanomedicine research to date, the field still lacks fundamental
understanding of how certain physical and chemical features of a nanoparticle affect its …

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 …

Several synthesis techniques have emerged for the preparation of chiral metal nanoparticles
(NPs) with intrinsic chiral geometrical structures and high optical activity. Chiral plasmonic …

The controlled release strategy can make the constructed sensor have the function of self-
on/off, which has an obvious effect on improving the sensitivity in immunoassays. Metal …

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome of
Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has fueled the search for diagnostic tests aiming at the control …

We introduce an enzyme-free plasmonic immunoassay with a binary (all-or-none) response.
The presence of a single pathogen in the sample results in a chemical cascade reaction …

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a causal agent of otitis media, pneumonia, meningitis and
severe cases of septicemia. This human pathogen infects elderly people and children with a …

Supramolecular self‐assembly in biological systems holds promise to convert and amplify
disease‐specific signals to physical or mechanical signals that can direct cell fate. However …

Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease caused by Plasmodium species, claims more than
400,000 lives globally each year. The increasing drug resistance of the parasite renders the …