Chemical Physics Seminar: Nanoelectrochemistry at the Single Entity Level

Abstract:

During the past few years, the field of electrochemistry has revolutionized with the development of new techniques that enable simple, accurate and rapid measurements aiming to investigate reactions at the nanoscale. 1 During theis talk, I will overview some of the cutting edge scientific findings related to insitu single nanoparticle detection and quantification via nanoelectrochemistry. 2-4 After that, we will move towards biological molecules. I will demonstrate that single virus and bacteria can be 'tagged' with silver nanoparticles and thus transformed into an electroactive species. 5,6 Consequently, real time rapid detection of biomolecules at the single entity level is realized. Furthermore, if the biomolecule contains catalytic sites, the activity may be observed without labelling as will be shown for the case of single re blood cell detection. 7,8 Last, I will share some future ideas related to this topic together with potential applications to both fundamental science and bioelectronic devices.

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