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ReviewRSC advances2019

Nanosensors for diagnosis with optical, electric and mechanical transducers.

Anam Munawar, Yori Ong, Romana Schirhagl, Muhammad Ali Tahir, Waheed S Khan, Sadia Z Bajwa

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In one paragraph

Review in RSC advances, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 206 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Anam MunawarNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE) P. O. Box No. 577, Jhang Road Faisalabad Pakistan anammunwar22@gmail.com waheedskhan@yahoo.com sadya2002pk@yahoo.co.uk.
Yori OngUniversity of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Biomedical Engineering Antonius Deusinglaan 1 9712AW Groningen Netherlands yori.ong@gmail.com romana.schirhagl@gmail.com.
Romana SchirhaglUniversity of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Biomedical Engineering Antonius Deusinglaan 1 9712AW Groningen Netherlands yori.ong@gmail.com romana.schirhagl@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8749-1054
Muhammad Ali TahirShanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University Shanghai 200433 Peoples' Republic of China alitahir7@yahoo.com.
Waheed S KhanNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE) P. O. Box No. 577, Jhang Road Faisalabad Pakistan anammunwar22@gmail.com waheedskhan@yahoo.com sadya2002pk@yahoo.co.uk.
Sadia Z BajwaNational Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE) P. O. Box No. 577, Jhang Road Faisalabad Pakistan anammunwar22@gmail.com waheedskhan@yahoo.com sadya2002pk@yahoo.co.uk.
National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering · PKUniversity Medical Center Groningen · NLFudan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanosensors with high sensitivity utilize electrical, optical, and acoustic properties to improve the detection limits of analytes. The unique and exceptional properties of nanomaterials (large surface area to volume ratio, composition, charge, reactive sites, physical structure and potential) are exploited for sensing purposes. High-sensitivity in analyte recognition is achieved by preprocessing of samples, signal amplification and by applying different transduction approaches. In this review, types of signals produced and amplified by nanosensors (based on transducers) are presented, to sense exceptionally small concentrations of analytes present in a sample. The use of such nanosensors, sensitivity and selectivity can offer different advantages in biomedical applications like earlier detection of disease, toxins or biological threats and create significant improvements in clinical as well as environmental and industrial outcomes. The emerging discipline of nanotechnology at the boundary of life sciences and chemistry offers a wide range of prospects within a number of fields like fabrication and characterization of nanomaterials, supramolecular chemistry, targeted drug supply and early detection of disease related biomarkers.

Identifiers

PMID35518460
PMCPMC9061101
OpenAlexW2916465105

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