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Plasmonic Fluor – an ultrabright
nanoconstruct that is over 10,000 times
brighter than any molecular fluor
Plasmonic Fluor – an ultrabright
nanoconstruct that is over
10,000 times brighter than any
molecular fluor

Instrument

Conventional Fluorescence

Conventional Fluorescence Graph

Plasmon-Enhanced Fluorescence

Conventional Fluorescence Graph

Familiar Workflow

Functionalized to enable a familiar ELISA-like workflow

ELISA ELISA
PFLISA PFLISA
Capture Antibody

Capture
Antibody

Biotinylated Antibody

Biotinylated
Antibody

Streptavidin HRP

Streptavidin HRP

Analyte

Analyte

Streptavidin PF

Streptavidin PF

Ultrahigh Performance

›100X improvement in assay sensitivity compared to equivalent ELISA with significantly increased dynamic range ›100X improvement in assay sensitivity compared to equivalent ELISA with significantly increased dynamic range

Ultrahigh Performance

Publications

SUN-044 Plasmonic Fluor Provides Ultrasensitive Detection of Kidney Injury Biomarkers on Antibody Sandwich Microarrays

Kidney International Reports 2020

Ultrabright Fluorescent Nanoscale Labels for the Femtomolar Detection of Analytes with Standard Bioassays

Nature Biomedical Engineering 2020

Microneedle Patch for the Ultrasensitive Quantification of Protein Biomarkers in Interstitial Fluid

Nature Biomedical Engineering 2021

Gold Nanorod Size-Dependent Fluorescence Enhancement for Ultrasensitive Fluoroimmunoassays

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021

Plasmonically Enhanced CRISPR/Cas13a-Based Bioassay for Amplification-Free Detection of Cancer-Associated RNA

Advanced Healthcare Materials 2021

Ultrabright Plasmonic Fluor Nanolabel-Enabled Detection of a Urinary ER Stress Biomarker in Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease

American Journal of Physiology 2021

Plasmonically Enhanced Ultrasensitive Epitope-Specific Serologic Assay for COVID-19

Analytical Chemistry 2021

Plasmonically-Enhanced Competitive Assay for Ultrasensitive and Multiplexed Detection of Small Molecules

Biosensors and Bioelectronics 2022

High-Resolution Imaging of Protein Secretion at the Single-Cell Level Using Plasmon-Enhanced FluoroDOT Assay

Cell Reports Methods 2022

Ultrasensitive Lateral-Flow Assays via Plasmonically Active Antibody-Conjugated Fluorescent Nanoparticles

Nature Biomedical Engineering 2023

Plasmon-Enhanced Expansion Microscopy

Nano Letters 2023