| Literature DB >> 26838516 |
Guanglei Fu1, Sharma T Sanjay1, Maowei Dou1, XiuJun Li2.
Abstract
A new biomolecular quantitation method, nanoparticle-mediated photothermal bioassay, using a common thermometer as the signal reader was developed. Using an immunoassay as a proof of concept, iron oxide nanoparticles (NPs) captured in the sandwich-type assay system were transformed into a near-infrared (NIR) laser-driven photothermal agent, Prussian blue (PB) NPs, which acted as a photothermal probe to convert the assay signal into heat through the photothermal effect, thus allowing sensitive biomolecular quantitation using a thermometer. This is the first report of biomolecular quantitation using a thermometer and also serves as the first attempt to introduce the nanoparticle-mediated photothermal effect for bioassays.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 26838516 PMCID: PMC5106188 DOI: 10.1039/c5nr09051b
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nanoscale ISSN: 2040-3364 Impact factor: 7.790