Versatile Plasmonic Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Biology and Medicines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 32
Special Issue Editors
Interests: SERS-active substrates; LSPR sensors and plasmonic nanoparticles for molecular detection
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: synthesis of plasmonic nanogap nanoparticles; DNA-based nanostructure engineering; plasmon-enhanced catalysts; SERS-based biosensors; electrochemical biosensors
Interests: development of synthetic methods of plasmonic nanomaterials; plasmonic photothermal-based fast and reliable assay methods to detect biomolecules such as antigens; antibodies; DNA
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plasmonic metal nanoparticles are currently being extensively investigated for their applications in optical-based nanobiosensors, drug delivery systems, early diagnostics, therapeutics, and many other biomedical fields. This interest stems from their outstanding physical and chemical properties, including stability, biocompatibility, the ease of target-specific surface modification, and pronounced localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effects. These properties make plasmonic nanoparticles well suited to enhance the sensitivity and specificity of biomedical devices and therapies, paving the way for breakthroughs in medical diagnostics and therapeutic interventions. Furthermore, the enhancement of the LSPR effect through the shape tuning of plasmonic nanoparticles allows for irradiation with specific wavelengths of light, inducing photothermal and photoacoustic properties. This makes them potential candidates for hyperthermia and various medical imaging applications. Consequently, the ability to control the physical properties of plasmonic nanoparticles to develop materials with specific optical, magnetic, and electrical properties is crucial for advancing the biomedical field. Despite significant progress in recent decades in synthesizing plasmonic nanoparticles with intriguing optical properties, challenges remain in precisely and reproducibly assembling them into well-defined structures at the nanometer scale, which are essential for their optimal application in biomedical platforms.
In this Special Issue of Nanomaterials, we aim to highlight recent advances in biomedical research on plasmonic nanoparticles, providing new insights into future directions in this field. We invite contributions from leading research groups to present and review the latest advances in nanobiosensor research and development using plasmonic nanoparticles or nanostructures and their applications in diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
Prof. Dr. Seunghyun Lee
Dr. Jeong-Wook Oh
Dr. Jung-Hoon Lee
Dr. Seungah Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surface-enhanced Raman scattering
- localized surface plasmon resonance sensors
- DNA-based nanoparticles
- nanogap engineering
- photothermal nanomaterials
- molecular diagnostics
- optical imaging immunosensor
- optical-based nanobiosensors
