Porous silicon chemical sensors and biosensors: A review

FA Harraz - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2014 - Elsevier
The use of porous silicon (PSi) as a sensor for detection of various analytes is reviewed. The
optical or electrical properties of PSi are key sensing parameters that have been used in …

Porous silicon in drug delivery devices and materials

EJ Anglin, L Cheng, WR Freeman, MJ Sailor - Advanced drug delivery …, 2008 - Elsevier
Porous Si exhibits a number of properties that make it an attractive material for controlled
drug delivery applications: The electrochemical synthesis allows construction of tailored …

Large-scale aqueous synthesis of fluorescent and biocompatible silicon nanoparticles and their use as highly photostable biological probes

Y Zhong, F Peng, F Bao, S Wang, X Ji… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
A large-scale synthetic strategy is developed for facile one-pot aqueous synthesis of silicon
nanoparticles (SiNPs) yielding∼ 0.1 g SiNPs of small sizes (∼ 2.2 nm) in 10 min. The as …

Porous silicon biosensors on the advance

A Jane, R Dronov, A Hodges, NH Voelcker - Trends in biotechnology, 2009 - cell.com
Biosensor research is a rapidly expanding field with an immense market potential spanning
a broad spectrum of applications including biomedical diagnostics, environmental …

Facile, large-quantity synthesis of stable, tunable-color silicon nanoparticles and their application for long-term cellular imaging

Y Zhong, X Sun, S Wang, F Peng, F Bao, Y Su, Y Li… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We herein introduce a facile, low-cost photochemical method capable of rapid (< 40 min)
and large-quantity (∼ 10 g) production of highly fluorescent (quantum yield: 25%) silicon …

Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of adsorption/desorption of bovine serum albumin on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces

YL Jeyachandran, E Mielczarski, B Rai, JA Mielczarski - Langmuir, 2009 - ACS Publications
We studied the adsorption of bovine serum albumin (BSA) from phosphate-buffered saline
(pH 7.4) to hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces. Attenuated total reflection Fourier …

Chemical and biological applications of porous silicon technology

MP Stewart, JM Buriak - Advanced Materials, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Bio‐and chemical sensing, biomaterials, and in vivo electronics are some of the latest
advances for porous silicon (p‐Si) discussed in this review. p‐Si is extremely versatile owing …

Biosensing using porous silicon double-layer interferometers: reflective interferometric Fourier transform spectroscopy

C Pacholski, M Sartor, MJ Sailor, F Cunin… - Journal of the …, 2005 - ACS Publications
A simple, chip-based implementation of a double-beam interferometer that can separate
biomolecules based on size and that can compensate for changes in matrix composition is …

Aptamers vs. antibodies as capture probes in optical porous silicon biosensors

S Arshavsky-Graham, K Urmann, R Salama… - Analyst, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decade aptamers have emerged as a promising class of bioreceptors for
biosensing applications with significant advantages over conventional antibodies. However …

Biomolecular screening with encoded porous-silicon photonic crystals

F Cunin, TA Schmedake, JR Link, YY Li, J Koh… - Nature materials, 2002 - nature.com
Strategies to encode or label small particles or beads for use in high-throughput screening
and bioassay applications focus on either spatially differentiated, on-chip arrays,, or random …