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ArticleBiosensors2022

Future Prospects of Luminescent Silicon Nanowires Biosensors.

Maria Josè Lo Faro, Antonio Alessio Leonardi, Francesco Priolo, Barbara Fazio, Alessia Irrera

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Article in Biosensors, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 45% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Maria Josè Lo FaroDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2067-1608
Antonio Alessio LeonardiDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7723-4356
Francesco PrioloDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Barbara FazioURT LAB SENS, Beyond Nano-CNR, c/o Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres 5, 98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1947-1123
Alessia IrreraURT LAB SENS, Beyond Nano-CNR, c/o Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres 5, 98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3057-1328
University of Catania · ITUniversity of Messina · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we exploit the perspective of luminescent Si nanowires (NWs) in the growing field of commercial biosensing nanodevices for the selective recognition of proteins and pathogen genomes. We fabricated quantum confined fractal arrays of Si NWs with room temperature emission at 700 nm obtained by thin-film, metal-assisted, chemical etching with high production output at low cost. The fascinating optical features arising from multiple scattering and weak localization of light promote the use of Si NWs as optical biosensing platforms with high sensitivity and selectivity. In this work, label-free Si NW optical sensors are surface modified for the selective detection of C-reactive protein through antigen-gene interaction. In this case, we report the lowest limit of detection (LOD) of 1.6 fM, fostering the flexibility of different dynamic ranges for detection either in saliva or for serum analyses. By varying the NW surface functionalization with the specific antigen, the luminescence quenching of NW biosensors is used to measure the hepatitis B-virus pathogen genome without PCR-amplification, with an LOD of about 20 copies in real samples or blood matrix. The promising results show that NW optical biosensors can detect and isolate extracellular vesicles (EV) marked with CD81 protein with unprecedented sensitivity (LOD 2 × 10

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Biosensing TechniquesNanowiresLimit of DetectionLuminescenceSiliconSiliconextracellular vesiclesgenomeluminescencemetal assisted chemical etchingoptical biosensorsproteinssilicon nanowire

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PMID36421170
PMCPMC9688548
OpenAlexW4309740028

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