Minhee Kang

Worldwide outbreaks of infectious diseases necessitate the development of rapid and accurate diagnostic methods. Colorimetric assays are a representative tool to simply identify the target molecules in specimens through color changes of an indicator (e.g., nanosized metallic particle, and dye molecules). The detection method is used to confirm the presence of biomarkers visually and measure absorbance of the colored compounds at a specific wavelength. In this study, we propose a colorimetric ass

Synergistic integration of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and big data technologies in healthcare have led to the notion of "smart health." Smart health is an emerging concept that refers to the provision of healthcare services for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up management at any time or any place by connecting information technologies and healthcare. As a significant breakthrough in smart healthcare development, IoT-enabled smart devices allow medical centers to

This work reports a facile wafer-level fabrication for nanogap-rich gold nanoislands for highly sensitive surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) by repeating solid-state thermal dewetting of thin gold film. The method provides enlarged gold nanoislands with small gap spacing, which increase the number of electromagnetic hotspots and thus enhance the extinction intensity as well as the tunability for plasmon resonance wavelength. The plasmonic nanoislands from repeated dewetting substantially i

Correction for 'A new point-of-care test for the diagnosis of infectious diseases based on multiplex lateral flow immunoassays' by Hanbi Kim et al., Analyst, 2019, 144, 2460-2466.

A quantitative correlation between plasmon resonance and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) signals is revealed by using a novel active plasmonic method, that is, a deformable nanoplasmonic membrane. A single SERS peak has the maximum gain at the corresponding plasmon resonance wavelength, which has the maximum extinction product of an excitation and the corresponding Raman scattering wavelengths.

Unlike monometallic materials, bimetallic plasmonic materials offer extensive benefits such as broadband tuning capability or high environmental stability. Here we report a broad range tuning of plasmon resonance of alloyed nanoislands by using solid-state dewetting of gold and silver bilayer thin films. Thermal dewetting after successive thermal evaporation of thin metal double-layer films readily forms AuAg-alloyed nanoislands with a precise composition ratio. The complete miscibility of alloy

We construct a multiplex surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) platform based on a plasmonic paper substrate and a double-labeled probe for the detection of multiple fluorescent dyes at high sensitivity in a single-wavelength light source system. Plasmonic paper, made of silver nanodots on three-dimensional cellulose fibers, enables highly sensitive SERS biosensing based on localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). The proposed method enables the identification and quantification of a range

This corrects the article "Recent Patient Health Monitoring Platforms Incorporating Internet of Things-Enabled Smart Devices" on page S76.

We aimed to develop a portable, simple-to-use, and self-pressure-driven blood plasma-separation device that can be combined with rapid diagnostic test kits. This simple, disposable, and electrical equipment-free apparatus has been designed to separate plasma from a few microliters of blood with only hand-powered operation. The refined plasma sample is then delivered to multiple lateral flow assay kits directly connected to the device for the detection of various serological markers. The required

To assess novel cellular roles and regulation of Rad9 in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the full-length rad9 gene was cloned into the shuttle vector pRS316, generating pYFRad9. The rad9 mRNA level was significantly increased in the S. pombe cells harboring the plasmid pYFRad9, suggesting that the cloned rad9 gene is functioning. The S. pombe cells harboring pYFRad9 showed higher survival in the minimal media containing nitric oxide (NO)-generating sodium nitroprusside (SNP, 20 muM)

Despite a substantial increase in testing facilities during the pandemic, access remains a major obstacle, particularly in low-resource and remote areas. This constraint emphasizes the need for high-throughput potential point-of-care diagnostic tools in environments with limited resources. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a promising technique, but improvements in sensitivity are needed for accurate detection, especially in scenarios where the virus is present in low quantities.