Characterization of gold nanoparticle bioconjugation by resonance light scattering correlation spectroscopy

Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have been widely used as probes and nanomaterials in certain biological and biomedical fields thanks to its special physical and chemical properties. However, it is still difficult to characterize GNPs-bioconjugates in solution, which has greatly limited further bioapplications of GNPs. In this study, we reported a single particle method for characterizing GNPs-biomolecules in solution using resonance light scattering correlation spectroscopy (RLSCS). The interaction of GNPs with bovine serum albumin (BSA) and thiol-modified oligonucletides were investigated.