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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Nanoprobes"”.
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Gold nanorod based nanoprobes for biomedical applications
… study is aimed at developing gold nanorod based nanoprobes for detecting molecular biomarkers at the single cell level, and characterization of the optical properties and the photothermal effects of gold nanorods for photothermal therapy of cancer. A systematic study on the growth conditions was …
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Electro-thermal nanoprobes for nanometrology and nanofabrication
… ferroelectric material. The ferroelectric-coated nanoprobes demonstrate tip polarization switching with the intention of being used for enhanced pyroelectric electron emission.
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Fabrication of Fluorescent Nanoprobes and Their Applications in Nanophotonics
… thesis, we developed a new class of fluorescent nanoprobes consist of a silica fiber taper, a single carbon nanotube, and nanoscale fluorescent elements (such as semiconductor quantum dots). This nanoprobe provides a natural interface between the nanoscale structures (i.e., the fluorescent …
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Development of Nanoprobes for the Biological Imaging Using Positive Charged Quantum Dots and Upconversion Nanoparticles
… These results show the potential of these nanoprobes to apply for the drug screening and in vivo multiplex imaging.
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Design and characterization of plasmonic nanoprobes and interparticle interactions for surface enhanced raman scattering and biomolecular detection
<p>Functional nanoparticles serve as an intriguing class of probes in medical theranostics for enabling rapid, sensitive, multiplexing, and point-of-care treatment and diagnosis. One important aspect of these applications is the exploitation of the unique plasmonic properties of certain metal …
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Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticle suspensions: Towards quantitative surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic sensing
… expected to be found in tissues with embedded nanoprobes while particle-level measurements of synthesized nanoparticles provide the molecular basis for calculations. We find that careful consideration of the localized surface plasmon resonance of SERS nanoprobes with respect to laser excitation …
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Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Environmental Analysis: Optimization and Quantitation
… Finally, colloidally stable stable pH nanoprobes were synthesized using co-solvent mediated AuNP aggregation and subsequent coating of poly(ethylene) glycol (PEG). These nanoprobes were applied for pH detection in cancer cells and in phosphate buffered aerosol droplets. The latter …
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Fluctuation Electron Microscopy Investigations of Medium Range Order in a-Silicon and a-Silicon:hydrogen Thin Films
… 1--4 nm. A convenient method of forming coherent nanoprobes has been developed where the probes are obtained by varying the condenser minilens excitations and the condenser aperture size. The patterns are quantitatively analyzed to get medium range order statistics. Data from amorphous silicon …
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Design and characterization of surface-enhanced Raman scattering nanoparticles as spectroscopic probes for biological imaging
… that have investigated the long-term stability nanoprobes, the kinetics of surface ligand exchange, nanoprobe imaging in cellular systems, the properties of reflective substrates, and electron microscopy characterization of metallic nanostructures.
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Development of a non-living model system for cell membranes and investigation of its mechanical and tribological properties
… the system and its mechanical interactions with nanoprobes.
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Nanoscale device engineering and plasmon-enhanced light – matter interactions for the characterization of 2D materials
… transparent and conductive cantilever. The nanoprobes enable precise electrode positioning on various material regions, offering user-friendliness, durability, reproducibility, and minimal material perturbation, as validated on WSe<sub>2</sub> and MoS<sub>2</sub> nanosheets, making them …
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Sustainable Nanomaterials Combined with Raman Spectroscopy-based Techniques to Advance Environmental Sensing
… The third application involved use of SERS pH nanoprobes for measuring pH in droplets of complex matrices (e.g., DMEM cell culture media, human saliva).
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Plasmonic Nanoplatforms and Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for in vivo Sensing: from Plants to Animals
… in vivo of leaf tissue treated with the AuNR@Ag nanoprobes. In another chapter of the work, we used standoff shifted-excitation difference spectroscopy (SERDS) for remote detection of biomarkers in plants under ambient light conditions. Monitoring plant molecular targets in field conditions …
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Interfacial physics in meniscus-confined electrodeposition and its applications for fabricating electronic structures
A novel three-dimensional micro-/nano-fabrication method, the meniscus-confined electrodeposition, was developed and studied. It exploits the thermodynamic stability of a microscale or nanoscale liquid meniscus to direct-write pure metallic three-dimensional structures of designed shapes and sizes …