Industrial Consultancy & Sponsored Research (IC&SR) , IIT Madras

Method for Colocalization of Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Molecules with Plasmonic and Raman Scattering Microspectroscopy

Technology Category/Market

Manufacturing/Chemical Engineering

Industry: Nano Technology

Applications: Medicine, biological applications and optical micro spectroscopic technique.

Market: The global plasmonic materials market was around US$ 10.7B in 2022, expected rising at CAGR of 15.5% and reaching US$ 39.4B by 2031.

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Problem Statement

  • The temporal behavior of theragnostic is vital to improve the efficacy in biological applications.
  • Variety of nanoprobes are used as theragnostic of which plasmonic nanobiolabels have optical, photothermal and surface enhanced RS properties.
  • However, due to complexity of biological environment resulting in multiple interfering molecules mislead the signals.

The aforesaid problems are eased with a combined  optical microspectroscopic technique as claimed in  present patent subject matter.

Technology

A method for the patent comprising:

1. A high resolution dark field condenser from Dark field scattering Micro- spectroscopy (DFSMS)

2. A Raman scattering Micro spectroscopy (RSMS)

  • Wherein the high-resolution dark field condenser is integrated with conventional point-scan confocal RSMS set-up that utilizes light source with wavelength of 400-1000 nm to excite plasmonic modes of noble metal nanoparticles and a 532 nm laser to excite Raman spectra for colocalization of both plasmonic nanobiolabels and biomolecules in biological samples.
  • The plasmonic nanobiolabels (silver and gold nanoparticles) is identified in chemical and biological nature using their inherent spectroscopic features. It is located in vicinity of Escherichia coli using SERS.
  • The biomolecules include proteins, DNA and RNA molecules; the biological samples include bacteria (Escherichia coli), mammalian cells (HEK293 cells). 
  • The plasmonic nanobiolabels are located in HEK293 cells and biomolecules are colocalized with them.
  • The state of plasmonic nanobiolabels is identified in terms of size, shape or state as a single, dimer or aggregated particles.
  • The plasmonic & Raman scattering spectroscopy is performed on chemical-biological systems.

Key Features/Value Proposition

  • The molecules adsorbed on Plasmonic NanoBio labels surface is used for colocalization.
  • Plasmonic NanoBio labels are important due to optical, photothermal and surface enhanced Raman scattering properties.
  • To eliminate the possibility of defocused imaging in PRSMS set-up, care is taken to focus the desired plane of imaging by using a laser spot used for confocal RSMS.
  • Polydisperse silver nanoparticles with SPR centered around 410 nm are used as NanoBio labels in Colocalization experiments, wherein AuNPs (size ~40 nm) are the NanoBio labels in the experiments performed on chemical and biological systems using plasmonic & Raman scattering spectroscopy.
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Contact for Licensing

Research Lab

Prof. Pradeep T

Department of Chemistry

Intellectual Property

IITM IDF Number: 1289

IP Patent Number: 419154 (Granted)

Technology Readiness Level

TRL – 3

Proof of Concept

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