Chan Ki, Ng Tzi Bun
Biomedical and Tissue Engineering Research Group, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Prince Philip Dental Hospital, 34 Hospital Road, Hong Kong, China,
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2015 Apr;99(8):3359-74. doi: 10.1007/s00253-015-6506-4. Epub 2015 Mar 13.
Nanocomposites containing nanoparticles or nanostructured domains exhibit an even higher degree of material complexity that leads to an extremely high variability of nanostructured materials. This review introduces analytical concepts and techniques for nanomaterials and derives recommendations for a qualified selection of characterization techniques for specific types of samples, and focuses the characterization of nanoparticles and their agglomerates or aggregates. In addition, DNA nanotechnology and the more recent newcomer RNA nanotechnology have achieved almost an advanced status among nanotechnology researchers¸ therefore, the core features, potential, and significant challenges of DNA nanotechnology are also highlighted as a new discipline. Moreover, nanobiochips made by nanomaterials are rapidly emerging as a new paradigm in the area of large-scale biochemical analysis. The use of nanoscale components enables higher precision in diagnostics while considerably reducing the cost of the platform that leads this review to explore the use of nanoparticles, nanomaterials, and other bionanotechnologies for its application to nanodiagnostics in-vitro.
包含纳米颗粒或纳米结构域的纳米复合材料展现出更高程度的材料复杂性,这导致纳米结构材料具有极高的变异性。本综述介绍了纳米材料的分析概念和技术,并针对特定类型的样品给出了合格的表征技术选择建议,重点关注纳米颗粒及其团聚体或聚集体的表征。此外,DNA纳米技术以及较新的RNA纳米技术在纳米技术研究人员中几乎已达到先进地位,因此,作为一门新学科,DNA纳米技术的核心特征、潜力和重大挑战也得到了突出强调。此外,由纳米材料制成的纳米生物芯片正在迅速成为大规模生化分析领域的一种新范式。纳米级组件的使用能够实现更高的诊断精度,同时大幅降低平台成本,这使得本综述探讨了纳米颗粒、纳米材料和其他生物纳米技术在体外纳米诊断中的应用。