Of good report: Synthesis and screening of an 80-member tricarbocyanine library identified CyNAMLA-381 as a near-IR surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) reporter with good signal stability and higher sensitivity than the standard. Encapsulation of CyNAMLA-381 on gold nanoparticles and conjugation to an antibody afforded SERS nanotags with excellent sensitivity, stability, and tumor specificity in xenograft models (see picture). Copyright © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Animesh Samanta

Chemistry

(SoNS) School of Natural Sciences

K.K. Maiti

K.-S. Soh

X. Liao

M. Vendrell

U.S. Dinish

S.-W. Yun

R. Bhuvaneswari

H. Kim

S. Rautela

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Ultrasensitive near-infrared Raman reporters for SERS-based in vivo cancer detection