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Jian Wu1, Wei Li2, Ghazal Hajisalem1, Ariella Lukach3, Eugenia Kumacheva3, Fraser Hof2, Reuven Gordon1.
Abstract
We demonstrate the application of polystyrene-functionalized gold nanorods (AuNRs) as a platform for surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) quantification of the exogenous cancer biomarker Acetyl Amantadine (AcAm). We utilize the hydrophobicity of the polystyrene attached to the AuNR surface to capture the hydrophobic AcAm from solution, followed by drying and detection using SERS. We achieve a detection limit of 16 ng/mL using this platform. This result shows clinical potential for low-cost early cancer detection.Entities:
Keywords: (240.6680) Surface plasmons; (240.6695) Surface-enhanced Raman scattering; (280.4788) Optical sensing and sensors
Year: 2014 PMID: 25574423 PMCID: PMC4285590 DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.004101
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomed Opt Express ISSN: 2156-7085 Impact factor: 3.732