Magnetic biosensor technologies for medical applications: a review

J Llandro, JJ Palfreyman, A Ionescu… - Medical & biological …, 2010 - Springer
In this review we discuss conventional methods of performing biological assays and
molecular identification and highlight their advantages and limitations. An alternative …

Spintronic platforms for biomedical applications

PP Freitas, FA Cardoso, VC Martins, SAM Martins… - Lab on a Chip, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the fundamental discovery of the giant magnetoresistance many spintronic devices
have been developed and implemented in our daily life (eg information storage and …

Spintronic sensors

PP Freitas, R Ferreira, S Cardoso - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes how magnetoresistive materials can be optimized and integrated in
magnetic field sensor devices. Giant magnetoresistive (GMR) and tunnel magnetoresistive …

Planar Hall effect sensor for magnetic micro-and nanobead detection

L Ejsing, MF Hansen, AK Menon, HA Ferreira… - Applied Physics …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Magnetic bead sensors based on the planar Hall effect in thin films of exchange-biased
permalloy have been fabricated and characterized. Typical sensitivities are 3 μ V/Oe mA …

Layer-by-layer self-assembly of chitosan and poly (γ-glutamic acid) into polyelectrolyte complexes

JC Antunes, CL Pereira, M Molinos… - …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Chitosan (Ch) is a nontoxic and biocompatible polysaccharide extensively used in
biomedical applications. Ch, as a polycation, can be combined with anionic polymers by …

Linearization strategies for high sensitivity magnetoresistive sensors

AV Silva, DC Leitao, J Valadeiro, J Amaral… - The European Physical …, 2015 - epjap.org
Ultrasensitive magnetic field sensors envisaged for applications on biomedical imaging
require the detection of low-intensity and low-frequency signals. Therefore linear magnetic …

Protein adsorption on mixtures of hydroxyl‐and methyl‐terminated alkanethiols self‐assembled monolayers

MCL Martins, BD Ratner… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The effect of surface composition and wettability on the adsorption of human serum albumin
(HSA) was studied. Self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs) containing mixtures of longer chain …

Human Serum Albumin Adsorption on TiO2 from Single Protein Solutions and from Plasma

SR Sousa, P Moradas-Ferreira, B Saramago… - Langmuir, 2004 - ACS Publications
In the present work, the adsorption of human serum albumin (HSA) on commercially pure
titanium with a titanium oxide layer formed in a H2O2 solution (TiO2 cp) and on TiO2 …

Femtomolar limit of detection with a magnetoresistive biochip

VC Martins, FA Cardoso, J Germano, S Cardoso… - Biosensors and …, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper the biological limit of detection of a spin-valve-based magnetoresistive biochip
applied to the detection of 20mer ssDNA hybridization events is presented. Two reactional …

Size dependence of the exchange bias field in NiO/Ni nanostructures

M Fraune, U Rüdiger, G Güntherodt, S Cardoso… - Applied Physics …, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
NiO/Ni wires have been investigated as a function of their width in order to investigate the
size dependence of exchange bias. The samples have been prepared by e-beam …