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Efficient Photothermal Sensor Based on Coral-Like Hollow Gold Nanospheres for the Sensitive Detection of Sulfonamides.

Xiaoyue XiaoSha YuGan ZhangZongyou ChenHong HuXiaocui LaiDaofeng LiuWei-Hua Lai
Published in: Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2024)
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), universally regarded as colorimetric signal reporters, are widely employed in lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs). However, it is difficult for AuNPs-LFIA to achieve a wide range and sensitive detection. Herein, novel coral-like hollow gold nanospheres (CHGNPs) are synthesized. The growth of gold nanospheres can be regulated to obtain a multibranched and hollow construction. The obtained CHGNPs possess intense broadband absorption across the visible to near-infrared region, exhibiting a high molar extinction coefficient of 14.65 × 10 11 M -1 cm -1 and a photothermal conversion efficiency of 79.75%. Thus, the photothermal/colorimetric dual-readout LFIA is developed based on CHGNPs (CHGNPs-PT-LFIA and CHGNPs-CM-LFIA) to effectively improve the detection sensitivity and broaden the detection range in regard to sulfonamides (SAs). The limits of detection of the CHGNPs-PT-LFIA and CHGNPs-CM-LFIA reached 1.9 and 2.8 pg mL -1 for the quantitative detection of sulfaquinoxaline, respectively, which are 6.3-fold and 4.3-fold lower than that of the AuNPs-LFIA. Meanwhile, the CHGNPs-PT-LFIA broadened the detection range to three orders of magnitude, which ranged from 2.5 to 5000 pg mL -1 . The synthesized photothermal CHGNPs have been proven effective in improving the performance of the LFIA and provide a potential option for the construction of sensing platforms.
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