This Thematic Series follows the symposium “Converging technology for nanobio applications” of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS), held in Lille, France, from May 26th to 30th, 2014. Many innovations in biomedicine are nowadays driven by nanoscale science and nanotechnology. Scientists working in these fields imagine and create systems useful for medical research and applications such as biomarkers, biosensors, diagnostic, imaging or vectorization for drug delivery.
Figure 1: Schematic representation of the biohybrid preparation.
Figure 2: The size distribution profile of (a) Chla–DPPC–MLVs (sample V1) and (b) Chla–Chol–DPPC–MLVs (sample...
Figure 3: The VIS absorption spectra of Chla in biomimetic membranes and in bio-hybrids.
Figure 4: The thermal behavior of the emission anisotropy of Chla in the samples.
Figure 5: The variation with temperature of the maximum of the relative fluorescence intensity of Chla in the...
Figure 6: AFM micrographs of nanobioarchitectures without (a) and with (b) cholesterol.
Figure 7: Evaluation of the cholesterol-containing biohybrid (sample V4) stability from the zeta potential di...
Figure 8: Antioxidant activity of the samples.
Figure 9: Antibacterial activity of the samples.
Figure 1: SEM and AFM images of the (a,d) untreated PCL electrospun scaffolds and of the O2-plasma modified o...
Figure 2: XPS spectra of the untreated PCL electrospun scaffolds and the O2-plasma modified ones, with P = 20...
Figure 3: The elastic modulus values of the untreated PCL electrospun scaffolds and the plasma-modified ones ...
Figure 4: (a,b) MTT assay of L929 cells in direct contact with the examined systems after 1, 3 and 7 days, in...
Figure 5: SEM micrographs of the (a–c) untreated PCL electrospun scaffolds for 1,3 and 7 days of direct conta...
Figure 1: (a) Illustrative scheme representing the structure of a single antenna and (b) SEM images at differ...
Figure 2: Electric field amplitude of silver antennas as a function of height and external radius. The maximu...
Figure 3: (a) Finite element method simulations of a silver nanotube with 1.4 µm height, 160 nm width, surfac...
Figure 4: Measurements of Raman intensities along the z-axis of the antenna using cresyl violet dye.
Figure 5: Raman scattering measurements of cresyl violet dye carried out on a rough silver substrate (black l...
Scheme 1: Simplified sol–gel mechanism reaction for a tetraalkoxysilane [23].
Figure 1: (a) Film thickness as a function of withdrawal speed for a sol of pH ≈4 and few days of aging, comp...
Figure 2: Contact angle measurements of a silica layer deposited by dip coating onto a glass substrate at dif...
Figure 3: Refractive index, n, at 750 nm, evaluated by spectroscopic ellipsometry of silica layers deposited ...
Figure 4: Tunable-thickness silica layer deposition onto plasmonic structures by dip coating. The thickness c...
Figure 5: AFM topographies (semi-contact mode) and 3D morphological reconstruction of typical plasmonic struc...
Figure 6: Simplified schemes showing the procedure used to perform the optical sensing and chip regeneration ...
Figure 1: Diagram of the custom-made atmospheric pressure CVD reactor.
Figure 2: Comparison of Raman spectra: pristine PDMS, carbon nanotubes (shiny domains) and graphite nanocryst...
Figure 3: Raman characterization spectra of pristine PDMS, coated PDMS and residual nanodomains of shiny and ...