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Novel Optical Nanoprobes for Chemical and Biological Analysis

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The development of highly sensitive, cost-effective, miniature nanoparticle-based colorimetric nanoprobes attracted great attention in recent years. Depending on their excellent performance in environmental and biological analysis, colorimetric nanoprobes have been widely used for sensing a wide range of analytes/targets, such as metallic cations, anions, small organic molecules, oligonucleotides, proteins, cancer cells, etc. In this chapter, we first introduce the optical absorption properties of nanomaterial, mainly focusing on the noble metal nanomaterials, such as sphere gold nanoparticles, gold nanorods, and silver nanoparticles. Then we discuss the colorimetric sensing strategies for ions, small molecules, oligonucleotides, and protein detection and cellular analysis, highlighting some of their technical challenges and the new trends by means of a set of selected recent applications.

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Chen, L., Wang, Y., Fu, X., Chen, L. (2014). Colorimetric Nanoprobes. In: Novel Optical Nanoprobes for Chemical and Biological Analysis. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43624-0_2

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