Publications associées à Sensitivity Enhancement by Carbon Nanotubes: Applications to Stem Cell Cultures Monitoring

Nanophotonic biosensors harnessing van der Waals materials

Low-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) materials can harness tightly confined polaritonic waves to deliver unique advantages for nanophotonic biosensing. The reduced dimensionality of vdW materials, as in the case of two-dimensional graphene, can greatly enha ...

Nature Research2021

Establishing a Ternary System for Optical Monitoring of DNA-Protein Interactions with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Shang-Jung Wu

DNA-protein interactions lie at the crux of life's essential processes. As such, various technologies have been developed to characterize these interactions. The distinct advantages of these technologies can be leveraged to study different facets of these ...

EPFL2020

Interaction of Fluorescent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Photosynthetic Microbes

Alessandra Antonucci

The discovery of carbon-based nanomaterials has impacted a variety of research areas in ways that could not be imagined three decades ago. Their unique combination of structural, optical, and electronic properties has made these nano-sized materials partic ...

EPFL2020

Protein Bioconjugation to Carbon Nanotubes for Near-Infrared Sensing

Vitalijs Zubkovs

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are a promising material for electrochemical and optical biosensing applications. Their small dimensions, large surface area, indefinite photostability, and remarkable electronic properties make SWCNTs an ideal trans ...

EPFL2019

Modeling hematopoietic stem cell dynamics in bioengineered niches

Sonja Giger

Bone marrow transplantation is a well-established medical procedure for the treatment of various hematologic diseases. However, the relatively low number of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that can be harvested, especially from umbilical cord blood, limits ...

EPFL2019

The role of OCT4 and SOX2 in regulating chromatin accessibility and cell fate across the cell cycle in embryonic stem cells

Torgil Elias Friman

Precise spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression is essential for development and homeostasis of complex organisms. This is achieved in large part by sequence-specific transcription factors (TF) that bind to genomic regulatory elements to activate or r ...

EPFL2019

In vitro fate mapping of stem cell development at the single cell level

Vincent Trachsel

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are responsible for the continuous production of all blood cells. This unique ability has made it possible to successfully use HSCs in the clinical setting to remedy various blood disorders. However, despite six decades of r ...

EPFL2018

Innovative optical lactate biosensing through the design of nanostructured materials

Oswaldo Javier Pérez Anguiano

The scope of this thesis is the synthesis of nanostructured materials, their functionalization and use for optical lactate biosensing applications. Rapid detection of L-lactate is important in many applications in the clinical sector, in the food industry, ...

EPFL2015

Portable oxidative stress sensor: Dynamic and non-invasive measurements of extracellular H2O2 released by algae

Christian Santschi, Olivier Martin, Volodymyr Koman

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated by aerobic organisms are essential for physiological processes such as cell signaling, apoptosis, immune defense and oxidative stress mechanisms. Unbalanced oxidant/antioxidant budgets are involved in many diseases a ...

Elsevier2015

In vitro Fate Mapping of Single Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Aline Roch

The in vitro expansion of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) for clinical applications is hampered by a rapid loss of HSC blood reconstitution capability in culture. While these rare cells can be stimulated to massively proliferate, cell divisions mostly resul ...

EPFL2014

A Self-Contained System With CNTs-Based Biosensors for Cell Culture Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Cristina Boero, Sandro Carrara, Jacopo Olivo

Biosensors have been applied to disparate fields, especially for endogenous compounds such as glucose and lactate. The main areas of application are certainly related to medical and diagnostic purposes. However, metabolic monitoring can be also of interest ...

2012

Ultrasensititve system for the real time detection of H2O2 based on strong coupling in a bio-plasmonic system

Christian Santschi, Olivier Martin, Shourya Dutta Gupta

We theoretically investigate the dependence of the different parameters of an optical biosensor for the detection of Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) based on absorption enhancement of Cytochrome c molecules near gold nanoparticles. H2O2 is a major reactive oxygen ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2012

Predicting stem cell fate changes by differential cell cycle progression patterns

Matthias Lütolf, Daniel Sage, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Yuya Okawa, Marlen Knobloch

Stem cell self-renewal, commitment and reprogramming rely on a poorly understood coordination of cell cycle progression and execution of cell fate choices. Using existing experimental paradigms, it has not been possible to probe this relationship systemati ...

Company of Biologists2012

Toxicity study of nanostructures

Lenke Horváth

The great achievement of nanotechnology is the controlled synthesis of a large variety of nanometer-size materials like needle-formed nanotubes, nanowires and two-dimensional graphene flakes. Due to their unique physico-chemical properties, these nanostruc ...

EPFL2012

Targeting of multiple metabolites in neural cells monitored by using protein-based carbon nanotubes

Giovanni De Micheli, Cristina Boero, Sandro Carrara, Giovanna Del Vecchio

Microdevices dedicated to monitor metabolite levels have recently enabled many applications in the field of cell analysis, to monitor cell growth and development of numerous cell lines. By combining the traditional technology used for electrochemical biose ...

2011

Comparison of Three Methods of Biocompatible Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Confinement for the Development of Implantable Amperometric Adenosine-5′-Triphosphate Biosensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Andrea Cavallini, Sandro Carrara

An amperometric biosensor for adenosine 5 -triphosphate (ATP) was developed applying a competitive assay of two glucose converting enzymes: glucose oxidase (GOD) and hexokinase (HEX). Competition between GOD and HEX for glucose in presence of ATP, lead to ...

American Scientific Publishers2011

Highly Sensitive Carbon Nanotube-Based Sensing for Lactate and Glucose Monitoring in Cell Culture

Giovanni De Micheli, Cristina Boero, Sandro Carrara, Giovanna Del Vecchio

Monitoring of metabolic compounds in cell cultures can provide real-time information of cell line status. This is particularly important in those lines not fully known, as the case of embryonic and mesenchymal cells. On the other hand, such approach can pa ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Multiwalled Carbon-Nanotube-Functionalized Microelectrode Arrays Fabricated by Microcontact Printing: Platform for Studying Chemical and Electrical Neuronal Signaling

Luca Gambazzi, Michele Giugliano

A facile method is proposed for the deposition of multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) layers onto microelectrode arrays by means of a microcontact printing technique, leading to the fabrication of MEAs characterized by well defined electrical and morpholog ...

2011

Design of a CNFET Array for Sensing and Control in P450 based Biochips for multiple drug detection

Giovanni De Micheli, Shashi Kanth Bobba, Sandro Carrara

Bio-detection specially dedicated to distributed diagnostics is emerging as a quite important application for Nanobioelectronics. Bio-detection is required to be highly sensitive in order to succeed in sensing small amount of bio-markers in patient’s blood ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2010

Numerical investigations of a multi-walled carbon nanotube-based multi-segmented optical antenna

Wei Wu

Motivated by the fabrication potential of multi-walled carbon nanotube structures, we numerically investigated a paired structure consisting of two metallic spheres each grown on one end of a multi-walled nanotube. The paired two-segmented structure is cap ...

2010