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99
Citations
33276
World Ranking
1350
National Ranking
519

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Sir George Stokes Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2017 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2004 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2000 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Tuan Vo-Dinh is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Engineering, Materials Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research emphasizes Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Materials Chemistry and Biophysics.

Their publication record includes frequent contributions to several scientific journals. Key publication venues include:

  • The Analyst
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Analytica Chimica Acta
  • Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Tuan Vo-Dinh's research topics cover areas such as Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications, Biosensors and Analytical Detection, and Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques. Other significant topics include Nanoplatforms for Cancer Theranostics, Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging, Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research, and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses.

Some of the recent published works include:

  • "Machine learning using convolutional neural networks for SERS analysis of biomarkers in medical diagnostics" (2022, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy)
  • "Acoustic separation and concentration of exosomes for nucleotide detection: ASCENDx" (2024, Science Advances)
  • "Dual-Modal Colorimetric and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)-Based Lateral Flow Immunoassay for Ultrasensitive Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Using a Plasmonic Gold Nanocrown" (2024, Analytical Chemistry)
  • "Solution-Based Ultra-Sensitive Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Detection of the Toxin Bacterial Biomarker Pyocyanin in Biological Fluids Using Sharp-Branched Gold Nanostars" (2023, Analytical Chemistry)
  • "Ultra-trace SERS detection of cocaine and heroin using bimetallic gold-silver nanostars (BGNS-Ag)" (2023, Analytica Chimica Acta)

Frequent collaborators with whom Tuan Vo-Dinh has coauthored multiple publications include:

  • Supriya Atta
  • Aidan J. Canning
  • Ren Odion
  • Hsin-Neng Wang
  • Pietro Strobbia

Throughout their career, Tuan Vo-Dinh has received recognition through several awards, including:

  • Sir George Stokes Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 2019
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2017
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2004
  • SPIE Fellow, 2000

Best Publications

  • Present and Future of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

    Judith Langer;Dorleta Jimenez de Aberasturi;Javier Aizpurua;Ramon A. Alvarez-Puebla

  • Gold nanostars: surfactant-free synthesis, 3D modelling, and two-photon photoluminescence imaging.

    Hsiangkuo Yuan;Christopher G Khoury;Hanjun Hwang;Christy M Wilson

  • Biosensors and biochips: advances in biological and medical diagnostics.

    T. Vo-Dinh;B. Cullum

  • Gold Nanostars For Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering: Synthesis, Characterization and Optimization

    Christopher G. Khoury;Tuan Vo-Dinh

  • Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy using metallic nanostructures

    Tuan Vo-Dinh

  • TAT Peptide-Functionalized Gold Nanostars: Enhanced Intracellular Delivery and Efficient NIR Photothermal Therapy Using Ultralow Irradiance

    Hsiangkuo Yuan;Andrew M. Fales;Tuan Vo-Dinh

  • Multicomponent analysis by synchronous luminescence spectrometry

    Tuan Vo-Dinh

  • Plant cell-surface GIPC sphingolipids sense salt to trigger Ca 2+ influx

    Zhonghao Jiang;Xiaoping Zhou;Ming Tao;Fang Yuan;Fang Yuan

  • Room Temperature Phosphorimetry for Chemical Analysis

    Tuan Vo-Dinh

  • Surface-enhanced Raman spectrometry for trace organic analysis

    Tuan. Vo-Dinh;M. Y. K. Hiromoto;G. M. Begun;R. L. Moody

  • Surface-Enhanced Raman Gene Probe for HIV Detection

    Narayana R. Isola;David L. Stokes;Tuan Vo-Dinh

  • Nanosensors and biochips: frontiers in biomolecular diagnostics

    Tuan Vo-Dinh;Brian M Cullum;David L Stokes

  • Surface-Enhanced Raman Gene Probes

    T. Vo-Dinh;K. Houck;D. L. Stokes

  • A Plasmonic Gold Nanostar Theranostic Probe for In Vivo Tumor Imaging and Photothermal Therapy

    Yang Liu;Jeffrey R Ashton;Everett J Moding;Hsiangkuo Yuan

  • Detection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 DNA Sequence Using Plasmonics Nanoprobes

    Musundi B Wabuyele;Tuan Vo-Dinh

  • Cancer gene detection using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

    Tuan Vo-Dinh;Leonardo R. Allain;David L. Stokes

  • Surface-enhanced Raman scattering for medical diagnostics and biological imaging

    Tuan Vo-Dinh;Fei Yan;Musundi B. Wabuyele

  • Silica-coated gold nanostars for combined surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detection and singlet-oxygen generation: a potential nanoplatform for theranostics.

    Andrew M. Fales;Hsiangkuo Yuan;Tuan Vo-Dinh

  • Plasmonic nanoprobes for SERS biosensing and bioimaging.

    Tuan Vo-Dinh;Hsin-Neng Wang;Jonathan Scaffidi

  • Sers diagnostic platforms, methods and systems including microarrays, biosensors and biochips

    Tuan Vo-Dinh

  • Near-field surface-enhanced Raman imaging of dye-labeled DNA with 100-nm resolution

    Volker Deckert;and Dieter Zeisel;Renato Zenobi;Tuan Vo-Dinh

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Sepaniak
Michael J. Sepaniak University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Tai-ping Sun
Tai-ping Sun Duke University
Joseph R. Lakowicz
Joseph R. Lakowicz University of Maryland, Baltimore
Veena Misra
Veena Misra North Carolina State University
Michael J. Therien
Michael J. Therien Duke University
Volker Deckert
Volker Deckert Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Kenneth M. Kemner
Kenneth M. Kemner Argonne National Laboratory
Urs P. Wild
Urs P. Wild École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Nelson J. Chao
Nelson J. Chao Duke University
Christopher W. Woods
Christopher W. Woods Duke University

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