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Growth of nanowire arrays from micron-feature templates

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Wonjong Kim, Martin George Friedl, Lea Ghisalberti, Dmitry Mikulik, Pablo Romero Gómez, William Craig Carter, Gaëtan Bernard

Here, we present a two-step annealing procedure to imprint nanofeatures on SiO2 starting from metallic microfeatures. The first annealing transforms the microfeatures into gold nanoparticles and the second imprints these nanoparticles into the SiO2 layer w ...

2019

Gold and silver bio/nano-hybrids-based electrochemical immunosensor for ultrasensitive detection of carcinoembryonic antigen

Sandro Carrara, Sattar Akbari Nakhjavani

Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is an important oncomarker for the detection of breast cancer. For ultra-sensitive sensing of CEA with great specificity and accuracy, an innovative and reliable electrochemical immunosensor was developed using various nano-h ...

2019

Impact of Lanthanide Nanomaterials on Photonic Devices and Smart Applications

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Half a century after its initial emergence, lanthanide photonics is facing a profound remodeling induced by the upsurge of nanomaterials. Lanthanide-doped nanomaterials hold promise for bioapplications and photonic devices because they ally the unmatched a ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2018

Label-free detection of hypoxia-induced extracellular vesicle secretion from MCF-7 cells

Philippe Renaud, Sandro Carrara, Tugba Kilic

Nanoscale extracellular vesicles (EVs) including exosomes (50–150 nm membrane particles) have emerged as promising cancer biomarkers due to the carried genetic information about the parental cells. However the sensitive detection of these vesicles remains ...

Nature Research2018

Nanostructured surface topographies have an effect on bactericidal activity

Jürgen Brugger, Songmei Wu

Background Due to the increased emergence of antimicrobial resistance, alternatives to minimize the usage of antibiotics become attractive solutions. Biophysical manipulation of material surface topography to prevent bacterial adhesion is one promising app ...

2018

Performance of Carbon Nano-Scale Allotropes in Detecting Midazolam and Paracetamol in Undiluted Human Serum

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Francesca Stradolini, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Nima Aliakbarinodehi, Sattar Akbari Nakhjavani

Nano-materials are highly exploited to enhance sensing performance of electrochemical electrodes by increasing the Electro-Active Surface Area (EASA). In this work, an analytical calculation of the deposited EASA is presented and experimentally validated b ...

2018