Surface modifications of nanoparticles for stability in biological fluids

L Guerrini, RA Alvarez-Puebla, N Pazos-Perez - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Due to the high surface: volume ratio and the extraordinary properties arising from the
nanoscale (optical, electric, magnetic, etc.), nanoparticles (NPs) are excellent candidates for …

Direct surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy of nucleic acids: From fundamental studies to real-life applications

E Garcia-Rico, RA Alvarez-Puebla… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Plasmonic optical biosensors for the analysis of nucleic acids have drawn a great deal of
interest in nanomedicine because of their capability to overcome major limitations of …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy in cancer diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring

L Guerrini, RA Alvarez-Puebla - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
As medicine continues to advance our understanding of and knowledge about the complex
and multifactorial nature of cancer, new major technological challenges have emerged in …

Surface enhanced Raman scattering for probing cellular biochemistry

C Spedalieri, J Kneipp - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) from biomolecules in living cells enables the
sensitive, but also very selective, probing of their biochemical composition. This minireview …

Design and clinical verification of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy diagnostic technology for individual cancer risk prediction

KM Koo, J Wang, RS Richards, A Farrell, JW Yaxley… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The use of emerging nanotechnologies, such as plasmonic nanoparticles in diagnostic
applications, potentially offers opportunities to revolutionize disease management and …

Interfacing DNA with nanoparticles: surface science and its applications in biosensing

Q He, Q Wu, X Feng, Z Liao, W Peng, Y Liu… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The knowledge on the mechanisms of DNA interfacing with nanoparticles holds great
potential for the design, assembly and usage of DNA in biological applications. A wave of …

Positively-charged plasmonic nanostructures for SERS sensing applications

M Turino, N Pazos-Perez, L Guerrini… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface-enhanced Raman (SERS) spectroscopy has been establishing itself as an
ultrasensitive analytical technique with a cross-disciplinary range of applications, which …

Graphene Quantum Dots Nonmonotonically Influence the Horizontal Transfer of Extracellular Antibiotic Resistance Genes via Bacterial Transformation

X Hu, Y Xu, S Liu, FO Gudda, W Ling, C Qin, Y Gao - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) coexist with antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the
environment. Whether GQDs influence ARG spread needs investigation, since the resulting …

Multiplex SERS chemosensing of metal ions via DNA-mediated recognition

L Guerrini, RA Alvarez-Puebla - Analytical Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
The combination of molecular sensors and plasmonic materials is emerging as one of the
most promising approaches for ultrasensitive SERS-based detection of metal ions in …

The controversial orientation of adenine on gold and silver

SG Harroun - ChemPhysChem, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In which orientation does adenine adsorb on gold and silver surfaces? This question has
been a matter of debate for over 30 years. Since the dawn of surface‐enhanced Raman …