@article{GrinsvenBonStrauvenetal.2012,
  author    = {Grinsven, Bart van and Bon, Natalie vanden and Strauven, Hannelore and Grieten, Lars and Murib, Mohammed and Jim{\´e}nez Monroy, Kathia L. and Janssens, Stoffel D. and Haenen, Ken and Sch{\"o}ning, Michael Josef and Vermeeren, Veronique and Ameloot, Marcel and Michiels, Luc and Thoelen, Ronald and Ceuninck, Ward de and Wagner, Patrick},
  title     = {Heat-Transfer Resistance at Solid-Liquid Interfaces: A Tool for The Detection of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in DNA.},
  series = {ACS Nano},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {ACS Nano},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {ACS Publications},
  address   = {Washington, DC},
  issn      = {1936-086X},
  doi       = {10.1021/nn300147e},
  pages     = {2712 -- 2721},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {In this article, we report on the heat-transfer resistance at interfaces as a novel, denaturation-based method to detect single-nucleotide polymorphisms in DNA. We observed that a molecular brush of double-stranded DNA grafted onto synthetic diamond surfaces does not notably affect the heat-transfer resistance at the solid-to-liquid interface. In contrast to this, molecular brushes of single-stranded DNA cause, surprisingly, a substantially higher heat-transfer resistance and behave like a thermally insulating layer. This effect can be utilized to identify ds-DNA melting temperatures via the switching from low- to high heat-transfer resistance. The melting temperatures identified with this method for different DNA duplexes (29 base pairs without and with built-in mutations) correlate nicely with data calculated by modeling. The method is fast, label-free (without the need for fluorescent or radioactive markers), allows for repetitive measurements, and can also be extended toward array formats. Reference measurements by confocal fluorescence microscopy and impedance spectroscopy confirm that the switching of heat-transfer resistance upon denaturation is indeed related to the thermal on-chip denaturation of DNA.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MuribYeapMartensetal.2014,
  author    = {Murib, Mohammed Sharif and Yeap, Weng-Siang and Martens, Daan and Bienstman, Peter and Ceuninck, Ward de and Grinsven, Bart van and Sch{\"o}ning, Michael Josef and Michiels, Luc and Haenen, Ken and Ameloot, Marcel and Serpeng{\"u}zel, Ali and Wagner, Patrick},
  title     = {Photonic detection and characterization of DNA using sapphire microspheres},
  series = {Journal of biomedical optics},
  volume    = {19},
  journal   = {Journal of biomedical optics},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {SPIE},
  address   = {Bellingham},
  issn      = {1560-2281 (E-Journal); 1083-3668 (Print)},
  doi       = {10.1117/1.JBO.19.9.097006},
  pages     = {097006},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {A microcavity-based deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) optical biosensor is demonstrated for the first time using synthetic sapphire for the optical cavity. Transmitted and elastic scattering intensity at 1510 nm are analyzed from a sapphire microsphere (radius 500  μm, refractive index 1.77) on an optical fiber half coupler. The 0.43 nm angular mode spacing of the resonances correlates well with the optical size of the sapphire sphere. Probe DNA consisting of a 36-mer fragment was covalently immobilized on a sapphire microsphere and hybridized with a 29-mer target DNA. Whispering gallery modes (WGMs) were monitored before the sapphire was functionalized with DNA and after it was functionalized with single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). The shift in WGMs from the surface modification with DNA was measured and correlated well with the estimated thickness of the add-on DNA layer. It is shown that ssDNA is more uniformly oriented on the sapphire surface than dsDNA. In addition, it is shown that functionalization of the sapphire spherical surface with DNA does not affect the quality factor (Q≈104) of the sapphire microspheres. The use of sapphire is especially interesting because this material is chemically resilient, biocompatible, and widely used for medical implants.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GrinsvenVandenBonGrietenetal.2011,
  author    = {Grinsven, Bart van and Vanden Bon, Natalie and Grieten, Lars and Murib, Mohammed Sharif and Janssen, Stoffel Dominique and Haenen, Ken and Schneider, E. and Ingebrandt, Sven and Sch{\"o}ning, Michael Josef and Vermeeren, Veronique and Ameloot, Marcel and Michiels, Luc and Thoelen, Ronald and De Ceuninck, Ward A. and Wagner, Patrick},
  title     = {Rapid assessment of the stability of DNA duplexes by impedimetric real-time monitoring of chemically induced denaturation},
  series = {Lab on a Chip},
  volume    = {11},
  journal   = {Lab on a Chip},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)},
  address   = {Cambridge},
  isbn      = {1473-0197},
  pages     = {1656 -- 1663},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MuribGrinsvenGrietenetal.2013,
  author    = {Murib, M. S. and Grinsven, B. van and Grieten, L. and Janssens, S. D. and Vermeeren, V. and Eersels, K. and Broeders, J. and Ameloot, Marcel and Michiels, L. and Ceuninck, W. De and Haenen, K. and Sch{\"o}ning, Michael Josef and Wagner, Patrick},
  title     = {Electronic monitoring of chemical DNA denaturation on nanocrystalline diamond electrodes with different molarities and flow rates},
  series = {Physica Status Solidi (A). Vol. 210 (2013), iss. 5},
  journal   = {Physica Status Solidi (A). Vol. 210 (2013), iss. 5},
  publisher = {Wiley-VCH},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {0031-8965},
  pages     = {911 -- 917},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MuribYeapEurlingsetal.2016,
  author    = {Murib, M. S. and Yeap, W. S. and Eurlings, Y. and Grinsven, B. van and Boyen, H.-G. and Conings, B. and Michiels, L. and Ameloot, Marcel and Carleer, R. and Warmer, J. and Kaul, P. and Haenen, K. and Sch{\"o}ning, Michael Josef and Ceuninck, W. de and Wagner, P.},
  title     = {Heat-transfer based characterization of DNA on synthetic sapphire chips},
  series = {Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical},
  volume    = {230},
  journal   = {Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical},
  number    = {230},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {0925-4005},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.snb.2016.02.027},
  pages     = {260 -- 271},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {In this study, we show that synthetic sapphire (Al₂O₃), an established implant material, can also serve as a platform material for biosensors comparable to nanocrystalline diamond. Sapphire chips, beads, and powder were first modified with (3-aminopropyl) triethoxysilane (APTES), followed by succinic anhydride (SA), and finally single-stranded probe DNA was EDC coupled to the functionalized layer. The presence of the APTES-SA layer on sapphire powders was confirmed by thermogravimetric analyis and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Using planar sapphire chips as substrates and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) as surface-sensitive tool, the sequence of individual layers was analyzed with respect to their chemical state, enabling the quantification of areal densities of the involved molecular units. Fluorescence microscopy was used to demonstrate the hybridization of fluorescently tagged target DNA to the probe DNA, including denaturation- and re-hybridization experiments. Due to its high thermal conductivity, synthetic sapphire is especially suitable as a chip material for the heat-transfer method, which was employed to distinguish complementary- and non-complementary DNA duplexes containing single-nucleotide polymorphisms. These results indicate that it is possible to detect mutations electronically with a chemically resilient and electrically insulating chip material.},
  language  = {en}
}