An optical nanoruler based on a conjugated polymer-silver nanoprism pair for label-free protein detection.

Wang, Xiaoyu; Li, Shengliang; Zhang, Pengbo; Lv, Fengting; Liu, Libing; Li, Lidong; Wang, Shu · Adv Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

An optical nanoruler system based on a conjugated polyelectrolyte-silver nanoprism pair is developed for label-free protein detection by taking advantage of the metal-enhanced fluorescence effect of silver nanostructures. Antibody-antigen interactions induce a change in the metal-fluorophore distance, followed by the response of a fluorescent signal of the conjugated polyelectrolyte. The system is used to detect target antigens sensitively and selectively.

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