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 …

Gold nanoparticles have been used in biomedical applications since their first colloidal
syntheses more than three centuries ago. However, over the past two decades, their …

Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION) with appropriate surface chemistry
have been widely used experimentally for numerous in vivo applications such as magnetic …

In the last 10 years the field of molecular diagnostics has witnessed an explosion of interest
in the use of nanomaterials in assays for gases, metal ions, and DNA and protein markers …

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are recent revolutionary developments of science and
engineering that are evolving at a very fast pace. They are driven by the desire to fabricate …

Recent advances in the exploitation of localized surface plasmons (charge density
oscillations confined to metallic nanoparticles and nanostructures) in nanoscale optics and …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are important components for biomedical applications. AuNPs
have been widely employed for diagnostics, and have seen increasing use in the area of …

An ultrasensitive method for detecting protein analytes has been developed. The system
relies on magnetic microparticle probes with antibodies that specifically bind a target of …

The field of plasmonics has become one of the most interesting and active research areas in
nanotechnology, enabling numerous fundamental studies and applications in a variety of …

2. INTRODUCTION The investigation of many fundamental processes in life sciences
requires straightforward tools for fast, sensitive, reliable, and reproducible detection of …