Cross-Reactive Plasmonic Aptasensors for Controlled Substance Identification

Autor: Joshua N. Yoho, Brian Geier, Claude C. Grigsby, Joshua A. Hagen, Jorge L. Chávez, Nancy Kelley-Loughnane
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 17, Iss 9, p 1935 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
77471288
DOI: 10.3390/s17091935
Popis: In this work, we developed an assay to determine if an arbitrary white powder is a controlled substance, given the plasmonic response of aptamer-gold nanoparticle conjugates (Apt-AuNPs). Toward this end, we designed Apt-AuNPs with specific a response to common controlled substances without cross reactivity to chemicals typically used as fillers in street formulations. Plasmonic sensor variation was shown to produce unique data fingerprints for each chemical analyzed, supporting the application of multivariate statistical techniques to annotate unknown samples by chemical similarity. Importantly, the assay takes less than fifteen minutes to run, and requires only a few micrograms of the material, making the proposed assay easily deployable in field operations.
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