Selective detection of Mg²⁺ ions via enhanced fluorescence emission using Au–DNA nanocomposites

• Tanushree Basu,
• Khyati Rana,
• Niranjan Das and
• Bonamali Pal

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 762–771, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.79

• . However, at higher concentrations in the body, it causes severe damage to the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), liver and heart. Some methods employing radioactive isotopes [10][11], fluorescent indicators [12][13][14] and electrophysiology [12][15] have been used for the detection of Mg2+ ions in biological

Reconstitution of the membrane protein OmpF into biomimetic block copolymer–phospholipid hybrid membranes

• Matthias Bieligmeyer,
• Franjo Artukovic,
• Stephan Nussberger,
• Thomas Hirth,
• Thomas Schiestel and
• Michaela Müller

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 881–892, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.80

• . Acknowledgements M.B. likes to thank the Fund of the German Chemical Industry for the Kekulé Fellowship and the Elite Network of Bavaria for intellectual support. The electrophysiology study was partly supported by a Competence Network on Functional Nanostructures grant of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung (TP-A03

Functional fusion of living systems with synthetic electrode interfaces

• Oskar Staufer,
• Sebastian Weber,
• C. Peter Bengtson,
• Hilmar Bading,
• Joachim P. Spatz and
• Amin Rustom

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 296–301, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.27

• −100 mV [8][9]. This was also in line with our comparative measurements performed by conventional single glass pipette-based electrophysiology (see Supporting Information File 1), which detected −35 ± 12 mV (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S1a). Noteworthy, the potential measured with our NEI/PGE

• cytoplasm or, at later time points, nutrient shortage. This view is corroborated by our own (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S1a) as well as other various electrophysiology studies, observing rapid ejection of intracellular glass microelectrodes from Physarum p. [10]. This is presumably due to its

Correction: Carbon-based smart nanomaterials in biomedicine and neuroengineering

• Antonina M. Monaco and
• Michele Giugliano

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 499–499, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.51

• Computer Science, University of Sheffield, S1 4DP Sheffield, UK 10.3762/bjnano.6.51 Keywords: carbon nanotubes; electrophysiology; graphene; microelectrodes; nanodiamonds; nanotechnology; neuroengineering; neuronal cultures; neuroscience; Correction for the Acknowledgement section, the correct text

Carbon-based smart nanomaterials in biomedicine and neuroengineering

• Antonina M. Monaco and
• Michele Giugliano

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1849–1863, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.196

• ; electrophysiology; graphene; microelectrodes; nanodiamonds; nanotechnology; neuroengineering; neuronal cultures; neuroscience; Introduction Over the past few years, the gap between materials sciences and biology has increasingly narrowed. This has enabled substantial progress within interdisciplinary approaches

• ], within regenerative applications. Martinelli et al. [62][63] cultured neonatal rat ventricular myocytes on CNTs substrates and measured the active and passive membrane electrical properties of both single myocytes and multinucleated cells by patch-clamp cellular electrophysiology. In both cases, cells

• of consisting of a continuous rough surface, i.e., the CNTs film, which was demonstrated to improve cell adhesion. Patch-clamp electrophysiology: One of the first studies reporting on the electrical activity of in vitro neuronal networks coupled to MWCNT-substrates was that of Lovat and co-workers