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Nanoceria surface: the most sensitive redox-triggered one step nano-amplifier for fluorescence signal of ochratoxin A
Sensitive detection of redox active analytes utilising its fluorescent nature requires a direct non-complicated approach to amplify its emission intensity. In this regard, we investigated nanoscale cerium oxid...
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Advances in Biosensing Technology in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Advances in biosensing technology have led to the increasing application of these devices in drug discovery, high-throughput screening, target identification, and drug analysis. This chapter reviews recent dev...
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Nanoparticle Characterization Through Nano-Impact Electrochemistry: Tools and Methodology Development
The field of nanomaterials has been expanding rapidly into many diverse applications within the last 20 years. With this growth, there is a significant need for new method development for the detection and cha...
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Nanotoxicity Assessment Using Embryonic Zebrafish
The emergence of nanomaterials in industrial processing and consumer products has generated an increased presence of nano-enabled products in the environment and now pose an increased risk of exposure to livin...
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Open AccessDNA assay based on Nanoceria as Fluorescence Quenchers (NanoCeracQ DNA assay)
Functional nanomaterials with fluorescent or quenching abilities are important for the development of molecular probes for detection and studies of nucleic acids. Here, we describe a new class of molecular nan...
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Nanomaterial-functionalized Cellulose: Design, Characterization and Analytical Applications
Cellulose-nanomaterial hybrid systems are promising platforms for the development of portable devices that can be used for fast and inexpensive analysis in the clinical, environmental and food monitoring field...
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CeO2–MO x (M: Zr, Ti, Cu) mixed metal oxides with enhanced oxygen storage capacity
The effect of composition on the thermal stability and oxygen storage capacity (OSC) of a series of CeO2–MOx (M: Zr, Ti, Cu) mixed oxides was investigated. X-ray diffraction, N2 adsorption–desorption analysis (BE...
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Portable Nanoparticle Based Sensors for Antioxidant Analysis
Interest in portable sensing devices has increased throughout the past decade. Portable sensors are convenient for use in remote locations and in places with limited resources for advanced instrumentation. Oft...
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Oxidative Stress and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacterial Pathogens: State of the Art, Methodologies, and Future Trends
Despite the significant advances of modern medicine and the availability of a wide variety of antibiotics for the treatment of microbial infections, there is an alarming increase of multiresistant bacterial pa...
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Biomedical Applications of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
Metal oxide nanoparticles have a unique structure, interesting and unusual redox and catalytic properties, high surface area, good mechanical stability and are biocompatible. For these reasons, metal oxide nan...
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Enzyme-functionalized mesoporous silica for bioanalytical applications
The unique properties of mesoporous silica materials (MPs) have attracted substantial interest for use as enzyme-immobilization matrices. These features include high surface area, chemical, thermal, and mechan...
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Affinity Immobilization of Tagged Enzymes
The development of new enzyme immobilization techniques that will not affect catalytic activity and conformation is an important research task. Affinity tags that are present or added at a specific position fa...
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Detection of organophosphorus insecticides with immobilized acetylcholinesterase – comparative study of two enzyme sensors
Two-enzyme systems based on acetylcholinesterase (AChE) – a mono-enzyme system based on AChE, with p-aminophenyl acetate as substrate, and a bi-enzyme system based on AChE and tyrosinase, with phenyl acetate as ...
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Biosensors designed for environmental and food quality control based on screen-printed graphite electrodes with different configurations
Graphite electrodes fabricated by screen-printing have been used as amperometric detectors in biosensors based on NAD+-dependent dehydrogenases, tyrosinase, or genetically modified acetylcholinesterases. The mon...
