Reversible gating of smart plasmonic molecular traps using thermoresponsive polymers for single-molecule detection

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zheng, Yuanhui ^a,b   Soeriyadi, Alexander H ^a,b   Rosa, Lorenzo ^c,d   Ng, Soon Hock ^e,f   Bach, Udo ^e,f   Justin Gooding, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f MELBOURNE CENTRE FOR NANOFABRICATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; RHODAMINE 6G;

DETECTION METHOD; GOLD; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SENSOR; SILICA; SILICON; SUBSTRATE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NANOFABRICATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPONSE TIME; SMART PLASMONIC MOLECULAR TRAP; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84946749211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9797     Document Type: Article

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