Herein, a multifunctional nanoarchitecture has been developed by integrating the branched poly(ethylenimine) functionalized graphene/iron oxide hybrids (BGNs/Fe3O4) and luminol capped gold nanoparticles (luminol-AuNPs). The luminescent luminol-AuNPs as an electrochemiluminescence marker can be assembled on the nanocarrier of BGNs/Fe3O4 hybrids efficiently via the Au-N chemical bonds and electrostatic adsorption. Meanwhile, the multifunctional nanoarchitecture has been proved with excellent electron transfer, good stability, high emission intensity, etc. Furthermore, we successfully developed an ultrasensitive magnetically-controlled solid-state electrochemiluminescence (ECL) platform for label-free determination of HeLa cells using this multifunctional nanocomposite. Excellent performance of the magnetically-controlled ECL biosensing platform has been achieved including a high sensitivity for HeLa cells with a linear range from 20 to 1 × 10(4) cells/mL, good stability, and reproducibility.
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Science
November 2024
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid-State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Microscopic robots with features comparable with the wavelength of light offer new ways of probing the microscopic world and controlling light at the microscale. We introduce a new class of magnetically controlled microscopic robots (microbots) that operate at the visible-light diffraction limit, which we term diffractive robots. We combined nanometer-thick mechanical membranes, programmable nanomagnets, and diffractive optical elements to create untethered microbots small enough to diffract visible light and flexible enough to undergo complex reconfigurations in millitesla-scale magnetic fields.
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February 2023
Micro- and NanoBiomedical Engineering Group (MNBE) Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW), 01069, Dresden, Germany.
Medical microrobotics is an emerging field that aims at non-invasive diagnosis and therapy inside the human body through miniaturized sensors and actuators. Such microrobots can be tethered (e.g.
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May 2021
State Key Lab of Digital Manufacturing Equipment & Technology, School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, PR China.
Introduction: Laser induced plasma micro-machining (LIPMM) has proved its superiority in micro-machining of hard and brittle materials due to less thermal defects, smaller heat affected zone and larger aspect ratio compared to conventional laser ablation.
Objectives: In order to improve characteristics and stability of induced plasma, this paper proposed magnetically controlled LIPMM (MC-LIPMM) to achieve a good performance of processing single-crystal silicon which is widely used in solid state electronics and infrared optical applications.
Methods: A comprehensive study on surface integrity and geometrical shape was conducted based on the experimental method.
J Mater Chem B
January 2016
Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China.
Mesoporous silica has aroused lots of interest in biomedical fields, in which novel kinds of mesoporous silica with tunable mesoporosity and size have attracted much attention, but functionalization or multi-functionalization inside the mesopores of these structures is still rarely detected. Among all the functionalized molecules, beta cyclodextrin hydrate (β-CD), a kind of hydrophilic non-toxic carrier for hydrophobic drugs, can increase the solubility and bioavailability of drugs, acting as a pH responsive "gate" when functionalized on the surface of mesoporous silica. Herein, we functionalized β-CD inside novel kinds of mesoporous silica or magnetic mesoporous silica as the physical binding sites for the model drug curcumin through an out-inside two step bifunctionalization process including a vacuum pumping recrystallization drug loading process.
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December 2015
School of Food and Biological Engineering and ‡Key Laboratory of Modern Agriculture Equipment and Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, People's Republic of China.
We proposed a facile method to prepare the nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots (NGQDs) doped silica (NGQDs@SiO2) nanoparticles (NPs). The NGQDs@SiO2 NPs were further explored as a versatile signal indicator for ochratoxin A (OTA) aptasensing by combination with electrochemiluminescence (ECL) and fluorescence (FL) detection. In this strategy, the core-shell Fe3O4@Au magnetic beads (MBs) acted as a nanocarrier to immobilize the thiolated aptamer specific for OTA, and the amino modified capture DNA (cDNA) was efficiently tagged with NGQDs@SiO2 NPs.
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