Publication Date:
2001-08-18
Description:
Boron-doped silicon nanowires (SiNWs) were used to create highly sensitive, real-time electrically based sensors for biological and chemical species. Amine- and oxide-functionalized SiNWs exhibit pH-dependent conductance that was linear over a large dynamic range and could be understood in terms of the change in surface charge during protonation and deprotonation. Biotin-modified SiNWs were used to detect streptavidin down to at least a picomolar concentration range. In addition, antigen-functionalized SiNWs show reversible antibody binding and concentration-dependent detection in real time. Lastly, detection of the reversible binding of the metabolic indicator Ca2+ was demonstrated. The small size and capability of these semiconductor nanowires for sensitive, label-free, real-time detection of a wide range of chemical and biological species could be exploited in array-based screening and in vivo diagnostics.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cui, Y -- Wei, Q -- Park, H -- Lieber, C M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Aug 17;293(5533):1289-92.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11509722" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology/metabolism
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*Biosensing Techniques
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Biotin/immunology/metabolism
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Boron
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Calcium/*analysis/metabolism
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Calmodulin/metabolism
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Chemistry Techniques, Analytical/*instrumentation/methods
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Electric Conductivity
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Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
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Ligands
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Miniaturization
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Proteins/*analysis
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Protons
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*Semiconductors
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Sensitivity and Specificity
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Silicon
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Streptavidin/analysis/metabolism
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Surface Properties
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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