Plasmonic nanoparticle sensors: current progress, challenges, and future prospects

Krishna Kant; Reshma Beeram; Yi Cao; Paulo S. S. dos Santos; Lara González-Cabaleiro; Daniel García-Lojo; Heng Guo; Younju Joung; Siddhant Kothadiya; Marta Lafuente; Yong Xiang Leong; Yiyi Liu; Yuxiong Liu; Sree Satya Bharati Moram; Sanje Mahasivam; Sonia Maniappan; Daniel Quesada-González; Divakar Raj; Pabudi Weerathunge; Xinyue Xia; Qian Yu; Sara Abalde-Cela; Ramon A. Alvarez-Puebla; Rizia Bardhan; Vipul Bansal; Jaebum Choo; Luis C. C. Coelho; José M. M. M. de Almeida; Sergio Gómez-Graña; Marek Grzelczak; Pablo Herves; Jatish Kumar; Theobald Lohmueller; Arben Merkoçi; José Luis Montaño-Priede; Xing Yi Ling; Reyes Mallada; Jorge Pérez-Juste; María P. Pina; Srikanth Singamaneni; Venugopal Rao Soma; Mengtao Sun; Limei Tian; Jianfang Wang; Lakshminarayana Polavarapu; Isabel Pastoriza Santos

doi:10.1039/D4NH00226A

Plasmonic nanoparticle sensors: current progress, challenges, and future prospects

Krishna Kant,^ab Reshma Beeram,^c Yi Cao,^d Paulo S. S. dos Santos,^e Lara González-Cabaleiro,^a Daniel García-Lojo,

^a Heng Guo,^f Younju Joung,^g Siddhant Kothadiya,^hi Marta Lafuente,

^jk Yong Xiang Leong,^l Yiyi Liu,^m Yuxiong Liu,^m Sree Satya Bharati Moram,^c Sanje Mahasivam,

ⁿ Sonia Maniappan,^o Daniel Quesada-González,

^p Divakar Raj,^q Pabudi Weerathunge,ⁿ Xinyue Xia,^r Qian Yu,^g Sara Abalde-Cela,^s Ramon A. Alvarez-Puebla,

^tu Rizia Bardhan,

^hi Vipul Bansal,

ⁿ Jaebum Choo,

^g Luis C. C. Coelho,^ev José M. M. M. de Almeida,

^ew Sergio Gómez-Graña,^a Marek Grzelczak,^x Pablo Herves,^a Jatish Kumar,

^o Theobald Lohmueller,

^y Arben Merkoçi,

^pz José Luis Montaño-Priede,^x Xing Yi Ling,

^l Reyes Mallada,^jkaa Jorge Pérez-Juste,

^a María P. Pina,

^jkaa Srikanth Singamaneni,

^m Venugopal Rao Soma,^cab Mengtao Sun,

^d Limei Tian,

^f Jianfang Wang,

^r Lakshminarayana Polavarapu

*^a and Isabel Pastoriza Santos

*^a

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* Corresponding authors

^a CINBIO, Department of Physical Chemistry, Universidade de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
E-mail: pastoriza@uvigo.gal, lakshmi@uvigo.gal

^b Department of Biotechnology, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Bennett University, Greater Noida, UP, India

^c Advanced Centre of Research in High Energy Materials (ACRHEM), DRDO Industry Academia – Centre of Excellence (DIA-COE), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, Telangana, India

^d School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, P. R. China

^e INESC TEC—Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Rua Dr Alberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal

^f Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

^g Department of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, South Korea

^h Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA

ⁱ Nanovaccine Institute, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50012, USA

^j Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Campus Rio Ebro, C/Maria de Luna s/n, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain

^k Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA), CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain

^l Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore

^m Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

ⁿ Sir Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility, NanoBiotechnology Research Laboratory, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

^o Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517 507, India

^p Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

^q Department of Allied Sciences, School of Health Sciences and Technology, UPES, Dehradun, India

^r Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China

^s International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), 4715-330 Braga, Portugal

^t Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

^u ICREA—Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain

^v FCUP, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal

^w Department of Physics, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal

^x Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU) and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia San-Sebastián, Spain

^y Chair for Photonics and Optoelectronics, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Königinstraße 10, 80539 Munich, Germany

^z Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, Barcelona, Spain

^aa Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine, CIBER-BBN, 28029 Madrid, Spain

^ab School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, Telangana, India

Abstract

Plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) have played a significant role in the evolution of modern nanoscience and nanotechnology in terms of colloidal synthesis, general understanding of nanocrystal growth mechanisms, and their impact in a wide range of applications. They exhibit strong visible colors due to localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) that depends on their size, shape, composition, and the surrounding dielectric environment. Under resonant excitation, the LSPR of plasmonic NPs leads to a strong field enhancement near their surfaces and thus enhances various light–matter interactions. These unique optical properties of plasmonic NPs have been used to design chemical and biological sensors. Over the last few decades, colloidal plasmonic NPs have been greatly exploited in sensing applications through LSPR shifts (colorimetry), surface-enhanced Raman scattering, surface-enhanced fluorescence, and chiroptical activity. Although colloidal plasmonic NPs have emerged at the forefront of nanobiosensors, there are still several important challenges to be addressed for the realization of plasmonic NP-based sensor kits for routine use in daily life. In this comprehensive review, researchers of different disciplines (colloidal and analytical chemistry, biology, physics, and medicine) have joined together to summarize the past, present, and future of plasmonic NP-based sensors in terms of different sensing platforms, understanding of the sensing mechanisms, different chemical and biological analytes, and the expected future technologies. This review is expected to guide the researchers currently working in this field and inspire future generations of scientists to join this compelling research field and its branches.

This article is part of the themed collections: Recent Review Articles and Nanoscale and Nanoscale Horizons: Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

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