Biological sensing
technology utilizing nanoparticles extends through
a diverse range of fields. The nanosensing is controlled using the
assembly/disassembly of nanoparticles dominated by interaction forces
between them. Although the interaction potential surface gives decisive
information on the sensing mechanism, evaluating the quantitative
profile has been impossible due to extremely complicated interactions
of conjugated soft matter. In this study, a model-potential-free determination
of the interaction potential surfaces was devised by combining small-angle
scattering and liquid-state theory. The model-potential-free liquid
theory was developed for colloidal nanoparticles inherently with strong
van der Waals attraction forces by their nanoscopic size. The present
method extracts interaction potential between nanoparticles even in
systems with complicated interactions due to conjugated soft matter.
By applying this determination method to a glutathione-triggered biosensing
reaction, interaction potential curves between biosensing nanoparticles
were realized for the first time. The analysis revealed peculiar potential
surfaces of the sensing nanoparticles. The mechanism of colorimetric
nanosensing function based on surface plasmon resonance is discussed
from the viewpoint of the assembly/disassembly of nanoparticles in
nanocomposites dominated by the interaction potential surfaces.
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