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Design and Development of Aptamer–Gold Nanoparticle Based Colorimetric Assays for In-the-field Applications
Published on: June 23, 2016
Recent advances in gold nanoparticle-based colorimetric aptasensors for chemical and biological analyses
Farahnaz Behzad1, Azam Samadi2,3, Elaheh Rahimpour2,4
1Department of Medical Nanotechnology, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:
Aptasensors are amazing among many currently formed procedures due to their excellent particularity, selectivity and responsiveness. These biosensors get more popular in combination with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to detect chemical and biological molecules. The response of AuNPs by changing color provides a simple explanation of outcomes. The authors review the recent developments in AuNP-based colorimetric aptasensors designed to sense different chemical and biological molecules. They summarize the procedure of AuNP-based detection and the ordinary instances of currently formed AuNP-based colorimetric procedures. Furthermore, their uses for detecting different analytes based on analyte types are given and the present challenges, overview, and positive views for forming new aptasensors are also regarded.

