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JOURNAL OF OPTICS
Volume 18, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/18/6/063003
Keywords
biophotonics; biosensing; nanomedicine; nanophotonics; plasmonics
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- Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) (Biomedical Research Council, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore)
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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This roadmap, through the contributions of ten groups worldwide, contains different techniques, methods and materials devoted to sensing in nanomedicine. Optics is used in different ways in the detection schemes. Raman, fluorescence and infrared spectroscopies, plasmonics, second harmonic generation and optical tweezers are all used in applications from single molecule detection (both in highly diluted and in highly concentrated solutions) to single cell manipulation. In general, each optical scheme, through device miniaturization and electromagnetic field localization, exploits an intrinsic optical enhancement mechanism in order to increase the sensitivity and selectivity of the device with respect to the complex molecular construct. The materials used for detection include nanoparticles and nanostructures fabricated with different 2D and 3D lithographic methods. It is shown that sensitivity to a single molecule is already accessible whether the system under study is a single cell or a multitude of cells in a molecular mixture. Throughout the roadmap there is an attempt to foresee and to suggest future directions in this interdisciplinary field.
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