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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 23.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Sens. 2022 Dec 1;7(12):3741–3752. doi: 10.1021/acssensors.2c01552

Table 1.

Comparison of RSV detection performance for three different nanoparticle geometries (sphere, rod, urchin) and concentrations (1, 5, 10 OD).


AuNP shape Dimension (nm) Concentration (O.D.) LOD (PFU/mL) LOD (copies/μL) LOD (PFU) LOD trend
Low High

Sphere 15 1 280,000 3360 8400 graphic file with name nihms-1882473-t0008.jpg
5 34,000 408 1020
10 200,000 2400 6000
50 1 29,000 348 870
5 8000 96 240
10 7900 95 237
100 1 14,000 168 420
5 8700 104 261
10 9600 115 288

Rod 50 (length) × 15 (width) 1 8,300 100 249
5 4400 53 132
10 5100 61 153

Urchin 65 1 16,000 192 480
5 8000 96 240
10 7300 88 219
75 1 2100 25 63
5 1400 17 42
10 1500 18 45