Cover Picture: Metal Nanoparticles for Virus Detection (ChemNanoMat 10/2016)

The Front Cover illustrates the concepts and methods for the use of metallic nanoparticles in virus detection. Viral targets are mainly captured via particle surface-modified ligands such as antibodies and nucleic acids. In most cases, metal nanoparticles with target-selective biomolecules diffuse through media to bind to targets in solution or on substrate, and detection signals from plasmonic or nonplasmonic systems are generated upon the binding between metal nanoprobes and targets of interest. This review introduces basic concepts in virus detection with metal nanoparticles, and recent advances in virus detection methods with metal nanoparticles are summarized and discussed. More information can be found in the Focus Review by J.-M. Nam et al. on page 927 in Issue 1, 2016 (DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201600165).