Quantum-enhanced nanodiamond rapid test advances early SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection in clinical diagnostics

Authors

Alyssa Thomas DeCruz, Benjamin S Miller, Da Huang, Max McRobbie, Felix Donaldson, Laura E McCoy, Ciara K O’Sullivan, Johannes C Botha, Eleni Nastouli, Rachel A McKendry

Topic

Biophotonics

Extract

"The lateral flow strips were imaged using a fluorescence microscope (Olympus BX51) with a 550 nm green LED excitation light source (CoolLED pE-4000), a filter cube with an excitation filter (Semrock-500nm bandpass, 49 nm bandwidth), a dichroic mirror (Semrock-596 nm edge), and 593 nm long-pass emission filter (Semrock)."

Product Type

pE-4000

Journal

Nature Communications

Year of Publication

2025

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