Title :
Cancer cells differentiation by multi-color ZnO and TiO2 nanowires
Author :
Wei-Jen Li ; Sheng-Chieh Yang ; Yi-Chun Shen ; Jian-Jang Huang ; Tsung-Lin Yang
Author_Institution :
Grad. Inst. of Photonics & Optoelectron., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
fDate :
June 30 2013-July 4 2013
Abstract :
An innovative method for cancer cells differentiation by using ZnO and TiO2 nanowires connected to antibodies as biomarkers is reported, and quantitative analyses show a high detection sensitivity to discriminate cancer cells from normal cells.
Keywords :
II-VI semiconductors; biomedical materials; cancer; cellular biophysics; nanomedicine; nanowires; titanium compounds; wide band gap semiconductors; zinc compounds; TiO2; ZnO; antibodies; biomarkers; cancer cell differentiation; detection sensitivity; multicolor nanowires; quantitative analysis; Biomarkers; Cancer; Educational institutions; Nanowires; Sensitivity; Substrates; Zinc oxide;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600274
