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Back Cover: Ultra‐sensitive immunoassay biosensors using hybrid plasmonic‐biosilica nanostructured materials (J. Biophotonics 8/2015)
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of biophotonics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1864-0648
pISSN - 1864-063X
DOI - 10.1002/jbio.201570082
Subject(s) - biophotonics , plasmon , nanotechnology , immunoassay , biosensor , cover (algebra) , surface plasmon resonance , photonics , nanoparticle , materials science , optoelectronics , biology , engineering , mechanical engineering , antibody , immunology
As nature‐created photonic crystals, diatoms possess fascinating optical properties that can be harnessed for many applications. We adopt diatoms to enhance surface plasmon resonances of metal nanoparticles and increase the sensitivity of surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). In this study, a sandwich SERS immunoassay is developed based on the diatom‐plasmonic nanostructured materials functionalized with goat anti‐mouse IgG, which improves the detection limit of mouse IgG by 100x to 10 pg/mL. (Picture: Jing Yang et al., pp. 659–667 in this issue)