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ReviewFrontiers in chemistry2020

Hybrid Porous Silicon Biosensors Using Plasmonic and Fluorescent Nanomaterials: A Mini Review.

Nedal Abu-Thabit, Elaref Ratemi

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Review in Frontiers in chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nedal Abu-ThabitDepartment of Chemical and Process Engineering Technology, Jubail Industrial City, Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
Elaref RatemiDepartment of Chemical and Process Engineering Technology, Jubail Industrial City, Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the last two decades, porous silicon (PSi) has been proposed as a high-performance biosensing platform due to its biocompatibility, surface tailorability, and reproducibility. This review focuses on the recent developments and progress in the area related to hybrid PSi biosensors using plasmonic metal nanoparticles (MNPs), fluorescent quantum dots (QDs), or a combination of both MNPs and QDs for creating hybrid nanostructured architectures for ultrasensitive detection of biomolecules. The review discusses the mechanisms of sensitivity enhancement based on Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) of MNPs, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) in the case of MNPs/QDs donor-acceptor interactions, and photoluminescence/fluorescence enhancement resulting from the embedded fluorescent QDs inside the PSi microcavity. The review highlights the key features of hybrid PSi/MNPs/QDs biosensors for dual-mode detection applications.

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biosensorcarbon dotsdual-modefluorescenceplasmonicporous siliconquantum dots

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PMID32548094
PMCPMC7272471

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