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Core/shell nanoparticles for multiple biological detection with enhanced sensitivity and kinetics

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Published 11 November 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Anne-Charlotte Faure et al 2008 Nanotechnology 19 485103 DOI 10.1088/0957-4484/19/48/485103

0957-4484/19/48/485103

Abstract

The paper shows the different methods to attach a molecule to detect streptavidin to a dielectric particle made of a rare-earth oxide core and a polysiloxane shell containing fluorescein. First, the detection of streptavidin binding on a biotinylated gold substrate can be achieved in three ways: the shift of the surface plasmon resonance of the substrate and the double luminescence (organic and inorganic) of the core/shell particle. Second, these detections are efficient even after elimination upon thermal annealing of all the undesired molecules that skew the assays. Finally, the particle that ballasts the protein enhances its binding kinetics and increases the localized surface plasmon resonance shift that detects the binding.

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