Advances in localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy biosensing

Nanomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1447-1462

  Sagle, Laura B ^a   Ruvuna, Laura K ^a   Ruemmele, Julia A ^a   Van Duyne, Richard P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biosensing; imaging; LSPR; multiplex; nanoparticle; tracking

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; PROTEIN;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OPTICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; SENSOR; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 80155214291     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.11.117     Document Type: Review

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