Assembly of gold nanorods for highly sensitive detection of mercury ions

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2834-2841

  Placido, Tiziana ^a,b   Comparelli, Roberto ^b   Striccoli, Marinella ^b   Agostiano, Angela ^a,b   Merkoci, Arben ^c,d   Curri, Maria Lucia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

assembly; Gold nanorod; ion sensing; mercury detection

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION PHENOMENA; COLORIMETRIC SENSING; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; GOLD NANOROD; HIGHLY SENSITIVE DETECTIONS; ION SENSING; MERCURY DETECTION; UV-VIS ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACIDS; ASSEMBLY; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COLORIMETRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IONS; LEAD; MERCURY (METAL); NANORODS; PLASMONS; SENSORS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

GOLD;

EID: 84880515448     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2257738     Document Type: Article

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