Nanomaterial-Enabled Sensors and Therapeutic Platforms for Reactive Organophosphates

Nanomaterial-Enabled Neural Stimulation

Neural stimulation is a critical technique in treating neurological diseases and investigating brain functions. Traditional electrical stimulation uses electrodes to directly create intervening electric fields in the immediate vicinity of neural tissues. Second-generation stimulation techniques directly use light, magnetic fields or ultrasound in a non-contact manner. An emerging generation of ...

Micro- and Nanofabricated Platforms: From Hydrogel Sensors to Therapeutic Devices

Plasmonic Nanomaterial-Based Optical Biosensing Platforms for Virus Detection

Plasmonic nanomaterials (P-NM) are receiving attention due to their excellent properties, which include surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effects, plasmonic resonance energy transfer (PRET), and magneto optical (MO) effects. To obtain such plasmonic properties, many nanomaterials have been developed, including metal nanoparticles (MNP), bimetal...

Nanomaterial-enabled stretchable conductors: strategies, materials and devices.

Stretchable electronics are attracting intensive attention due to their promising applications in many areas where electronic devices undergo large deformation and/or form intimate contact with curvilinear surfaces. On the other hand, a plethora of nanomaterials with outstanding properties have emerged over the past decades. The understanding of nanoscale phenomena, materials, and devices has p...

Graphene-enabled silver nanoantenna sensors.

Silver is the ideal material for plasmonics because of its low loss at optical frequencies but is often replaced by a more lossy metal, gold. This is because of silver's tendency to tarnish and roughen, forming Ag(2)S on its surface, dramatically diminishing optical properties and rendering it unreliable for applications. By passivating the surface of silver nanostructures with monolayer graphe...