scholarly journals Investigation of DNA sequence recognition by a streptomycete MarR family transcriptional regulator through surface plasmon resonance and X-ray crystallography

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (14) ◽  
pp. 7009-7022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare E. M. Stevenson ◽  
Aoun Assaad ◽  
Govind Chandra ◽  
Tung B. K. Le ◽  
Sandra J. Greive ◽  
...  
2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (22) ◽  
pp. 7146-7156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Lebars ◽  
Pierre Legrand ◽  
Ahissan Aimé ◽  
Noël Pinaud ◽  
Sébastien Fribourg ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (8) ◽  
pp. 083101 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Serrano ◽  
O. Rodríguez de la Fuente ◽  
V. Collado ◽  
J. Rubio-Zuazo ◽  
C. Monton ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Conrad Rizal

Magneto-optic surface plasmon resonance (MOSPR) based sensors are highly attractive as next generation biosensors. However, these sensors suffer from oxidation leading to degradation of performance, reproducibility of the sensor surface because of the difficulty of removing adsorbed materials, and degradation of sensor surface during surface cleaning, and these limit their applications. In this paper, I propose MOSPR-based biosensors with 0 to 15 nm thick inert polycarbonate laminate plastic as a protective layer and theoretically demonstrate the practicability of our approach in water-medium for three different probing samples: ethanol, propanol, and pentanol. I also investigate microstructure and magnetic properties. The chemical composition and layered information of the sensor are investigated using X-ray reflectivity and X-ray diffraction analyses and these show distinct fcc-Au (111) phases, as dominated by the higher density of conduction electrons in Au as compared to Co. The magnetic characterization measured with the in-plane magnetic field to the sensor surface for both the as-deposited and annealed multilayers showed isotropic easy axis magnetization parallel to the multilayer interface at a saturating magnetic field of <100 Oe. The sensor showed a maximum sensitivity of 5.5 × 104%/RIU for water-ethanol media and the highest detection level of 2.5 × 10−8 for water-pentanol media as the protective layer is increased from 0 to 15 nm.c


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3654
Author(s):  
Hang Nguyen Thi Nhat ◽  
Ngoc Thuy Trang Le ◽  
Nguyen Thi Phuong Phong ◽  
Dai Hai Nguyen ◽  
Minh-Tri Nguyen-Le

The use of gold nanorods (AuNRs) as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates has gained much attraction due to their remarkably aspect-ratio-dependent plasmonic properties. In this report, we described the development of AuNRs with a high aspect ratio and longitudinal surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) >850 nm through a hydroquinone-based fabrication with minor modifications. The synthesis started with the reduction of chloroauric acid (HAuCl4) by sodium borohydride (NaBH4) to make gold nanoseeds from which AuNRs were grown with the aid of silver nitrate (AgNO3), HAuCl4, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), and hydroquinone (HQ). Scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray (SEM-EDX), Transmission electron microscope (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Ultra-violet-Visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis) were performed to study the shape, size, and structural and optical properties of AuNRs, respectively. The results showed that AuNRs with high aspect ratios (AR > 3) were single crystals with a heterogenous size distribution, and that the growth of Au nanoseeds into AuNRs took place along the [001] direction. AuNRs exhibited two plasmon resonance peaks at 520 nm and 903 nm, while gold nanoseeds had only a plasmon resonance peak at 521 nm. The as-synthesized AuNRs also showed SERS effects for thiophanate methyl, a broad-spectrum fungicide, with the limit of detection down to 5 mg/L of the fungicide. AuNR-coated glass can serve as a SERS-based sensing platform for rapid detection of thiophanate methyl with high sensitivity and reproducibility.


2009 ◽  
Vol 1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongfang Yang

AbstractAu-SnOxnanocomposite thin films composed of gold nanoparticles embedded in SnOxmatrix were prepared by pulsed laser deposition technique and their crystal structure, morphology and chemical composition were evaluated by low angle X-ray diffraction, field-emission scanning electron microscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, respectively. For the nanocomposite films with high Au percentage, the surfaces of nanocomposite films are very smooth, while for the films with low Au percentage, the films consist of many embedded Au nanoparticles with particle size of 5-20 nm. The XRD results revealed that in the nanocomposite films Au existed in a polycrystalline phase while SnOxin an amorphous phase. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) responses of the Au-SnOxnanocomposite thin films were investigated as functions of Au percentage and film thickness in the Kretschmann geometry of attenuated total reflection using a polarized light beam at the wavelength of 640 nm. The reflectance minima (SPR dip) of SPR responses of the Au-SnOxnanocomposite films appeared at higher values of incident angle than that of a pure Au film and as the Au percentage decreases the SPR angles shift to higher values and the widths also become broader. The potential use of Au-SnOxnanocomposite films for SPR gas sensing was discussed.


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