The development of a galactose-capped gold nanoparticle-based colorimetric sensor for the detection of the lectin heat-labile enterotoxin is reported. Heat-labile enterotoxin is one of the pathogenic agents responsible for the intestinal disease called 'traveller's diarrhoea'. By means of specific interaction between galactose moieties attached to the surface of gold nanoparticles and receptors...

in this research, gold nanoparticles were synthesized and functionalized by the antibody of aflatoxins. the quenching of the fluorescence of excitation emission matrices (eem) of two type of aflatoxins (b1, g1), provoked by the gold nanoparticles, was studied by principal component analysis (pca) and multivariate curve resolution with alternating least squares (mcr-als). these aflatoxins show q...

A simple filtration technique was developed to prepare large scale free-standing close-packed gold nanoparticle ultrathin films using metal hydroxide nanostrands as both barrier layer and sacrificial layer. As thin as 70 nm, centimeter scale robust free-standing gold nanoparticle thin film was obtained. The thickness of the films could be easily tuned by the filtration volumes. The electronic c...

A direct electrochemical biosensing platform has been fabricated by covalent incorporation of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and gold nanoparticles (GNP) onto the poly(thionine) (PTH) film deposited by electropolymerization. With the synergic effects of the composite nanomaterials together with the excellent mediating redox polymer, the proposed platform could allow for faster electron transfer and hig...

Cell-based biosensors have become a research hotspot in biosensors and bioelectronics fields. The main feature of cell-based biosensors is the immobilization of living cell on the surface of transducers. Different types of polymers which are used as scaffolds for cell growth should be biocompatible and have reactive functional groups for further attachment of biomolecules. In this work, the cel...

The size of gold nanoparticle aggregates was controlled by manipulating the interparticle interaction. To manipulate the interparticle interaction of gold nanoparticles prepared by citrate reduction, we applied the substitutive adsorption of benzyl mercaptan on the particle surface in the absence of the cross-linking effect. Various experimental techniques such as UV-vis absorption spectroscopy...

Sir, the application of the novel nanotechnology in diagnostic medicine is very interesting. In neurology, there are some previous reports. Focusing on the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination, some previous publications previously mentioned for the application of gold nanoparticle solution as a diagnostic reagent for protein and Cryptococcus determination within CSF. Here, the author addition...

The development of targeted vehicles for systemic drug delivery relies on optimizing both the cell-targeting ligand and the physicochemical characteristics of the nanoparticle carrier. A versatile platform based on modification of gold nanoparticles with thiolated polymers is presented in which design parameters can be varied independently and systematically. Nanoparticle formulations of varyin...

Molecular dynamics simulations were used to characterize the structure and dynamics for several peptides and the effect of conjugating them to a gold nanoparticle. Peptide structure and dynamics were compared for two cases: unbound peptides in water, and peptides bound to the gold nanoparticle surface in water. The results show that conjugating the peptides to the gold nanoparticle usually decr...

The possibility of releasing gold nanoparticles (GNP) into the environment has been 9 rapidly increasing with the wide spread and flourishing application of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) 10 in a wide range of areas. Consequently, environmental effects of GNP, especially toxicities to 11 living organisms have drawn great attention. However, their toxicological characteristics still 12 remain unclear...