Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lin, Meihua
• Pei, Hao
• Yang, Fan
• Fan, Chunhai
• Zuo, Xiaolei

Titel

Applications of Gold Nanoparticles in the Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases and Biothreats

Ist Teil von

• Advanced materials (Weinheim), 2013-07, Vol.25 (25), p.3490-3496

Ort / Verlag

Weinheim: WILEY-VCH Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The situation of infectious diseases and biothreats all over the world remains serious. The effective identification of such diseases plays a very important role. In recent years, gold nanoparticles have been widely used in biosensor design to improve the performance for the detection of infectious diseases and biothreats. Here, recent advances of gold‐nanoparticle‐based biosensors in this field are summarized. Gold‐nanoparticle‐based biosensors play an important role in the identification of infectious diseases and biothreats. Gold nanoparticles can be used as signal producers and signal amplifiers to improve the performance of biosensors. Based on this approach, colorimetric, electrochemical, and fluorescent biosensors with high sensitivity and specificity are designed to fight infectious diseases and biothreats.