Monitoring of stem cell differentiation and pluripotency is an important step for the practical use of stem cells in the field of regenerative medicine. Hence, a new non-destructive detection tool capable of in situ monitoring of stem cell differentiation is highly needed. In this study, we report a 3D graphene oxide-encapsulated gold nanoparticle that is very effective for the detection of the...

Although various noble metal and semiconducting molecules have been developed as photoacoustic (PA) agents, the use of semiconducting polymer-metal nanoparticle hybrid materials to enhance PA signal has not been explored. A novel semiconducting-plasmonic nanovesicle was fabricated by self-assembly of semiconducting poly(perylene diimide) (PPDI) and poly(ethylene glycol (PEG) tethered gold nanop...

CytImmune Sciences, Inc. 9640 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD, 20850: email: [email protected] Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Chemistry Blacksburg, VA 24061 Colloidal gold nanoparticles represent a versatile biomedical platform. Our efforts have focused on the development of these nanoparticles into a platform technology for developing tumor targete...

Gold-gold sulfide nanoparticles are of interest for drug delivery, biomedical imaging, and photothermal therapy applications due to a facile synthesis method resulting in small particles with high near-infrared (NIR) absorption efficiency. Previous studies suggest that the NIR sensitivity of these nanoparticles was due to hexagonally shaped metal-coated dielectric nanoparticles that consist of ...

In this communication, solid-phase reactions for the synthesis of Lys-monofunctionalized gold nanoparticles are described. A controlled and selective fabrication of linear nanoparticle arrays can be achieved through peptide linkage systems, and therefore it is essential to prepare Fmoc amino acid nanoparticle building blocks susceptible to Fmoc solid-phase peptide synthesis. Gold nanoparticles ...

We report a fluorescent probe for mRNA detection. It consists of a gold nanorod (GNR) functionalized with fluorophore-labeled hairpin oligonucleotides (hpDNA) that are complementary to the mRNA of a target gene. This nanoprobe was found to be sensitive to a complementary oligonucleotide, as indicated by significant changes in both fluorescence intensity and lifetime. The influence of the surfac...

Colloidal gold is a useful marker for functional-imaging experiments in transmission X-ray microscopy. Due to the low contrast of gold particles with small diameters it is necessary to develop a powerful algorithm to localize the single gold particles. The presented image-analysis algorithm for identifying colloidal gold particles is based on the combination of a threshold with respect to the l...

The formation of gold nanoparticle–lipid composite films by glucose-induced reduction of chloroaurate ions entrapped in thermally evaporated fatty amine films is described. Simple immersion of films of the salt of octadecylamine and chloroaurate ions (formed by immersion of thermally evaporated fatty amine films in chloroauric acid solution) in glucose solution leads to the facile in-situ reduc...

We study the polarization dependence of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in coupled gold nanoparticle-nanowire systems. The coupling between the continuous nanowire plasmons and the localized nanoparticle plasmons results in significant field enhancements and SERS enhancements comparable to those found in nanoparticle dimer junctions. The SERS intensity is maximal when the incident ligh...

Based on a scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) we present measurements on the optical interaction of a single molecule and a single gold nanoparticle. The phenomena of field enhancement, emission quenching and fluorescence enhancement are studied with outstanding control over all key parameters. We have attached a single gold nanoparticle to the extremity of a pulled glass fiber tip a...