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Metal enhanced fluorescence (MEF) for biosensors: General approaches and a review of recent developments

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A general overview of metal-enhanced fluorescence biosensor systems from the basic mechanism to state-of-the-art biological applications and the pros and cons is provided.
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This article is published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics.The article was published on 2018-07-15 and is currently open access. It has received 275 citations till now.

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A Review on Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering.

TL;DR: An overview of the most significant aspects of surface-enhanced Raman scattering, and a representative selection of applications in the biomedical field, with direct and indirect protocols is provided.
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Multicomponent Plasmonic Nanoparticles: From Heterostructured Nanoparticles to Colloidal Composite Nanostructures.

TL;DR: This review comprehensively summarize the latest advances on state-of-art synthetic strategies, unique properties, and promising applications of multicomponent plasmonic nanoparticles.
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Guide to Selecting a Biorecognition Element for Biosensors.

TL;DR: A review of the typical characteristics and binding mechanisms of various biorecognition elements, and how they relate to biosensor performance characteristics, specifically sensitivity, selectivity, reproducibility, and reusability are reviewed.
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Photoluminescent Nanoparticles for Chemical and Biological Analysis and Imaging

TL;DR: This review provides a comprehensive and heuristic overview of luminescent nanoparticles, targeted to both newcomers and experts who are interested in a critical assessment of LNP materials, their properties, strengths and weaknesses, and prospective applications.
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Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy and Sensing

TL;DR: This review describes recent fundamental spectroscopic studies that reveal key relationships governing the LSPR spectral location and its sensitivity to the local environment, including nanoparticle shape and size and introduces a new form of L SPR spectroscopy, involving the coupling between nanoparticle plasmon resonances and adsorbate molecular resonances.
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Calculated Absorption and Scattering Properties of Gold Nanoparticles of Different Size, Shape, and Composition: Applications in Biological Imaging and Biomedicine

TL;DR: While nanorods with a higher aspect ratio along with a smaller effective radius are the best photoabsorbing nanoparticles, the highest scattering contrast for imaging applications is obtained from nanorod of high aspect ratio with a larger effective radius.
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Quantum-sized carbon dots for bright and colorful photoluminescence.

TL;DR: It is reported that nanoscale carbon particles (carbon dots) upon simple surface passivation are strongly photoluminescent in both solution and the solid state.
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Chemical sensors based on amplifying fluorescent conjugated polymers.

TL;DR: This review restricts discussions to purely fluorescence-based methods using conjugated polymers (CPs) and details earlier research in this Introduction to illustrate fundamental concepts and terminology that underpin the recent literature.
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Size and temperature dependence of the plasmon absorption of colloidal gold nanoparticles

TL;DR: In this paper, the size and temperature dependence of the plasmon absorption of 9, 15, 22, 48, and 99 nm gold nanoparticles in aqueous solution were studied.
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