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Effect of Anderson localization on light emission from gold nanoparticle aggregates

  • Mohamed H. Abdellatif,
  • Marco Salerno,
  • Gaser N. Abdelrasoul,
  • Ioannis Liakos,
  • Alice Scarpellini,
  • Sergio Marras and
  • Alberto Diaspro

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 2013–2022, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.192

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  • constant of the medium. Keywords: Anderson localization; gold nanoparticle aggregates; photoluminescence; plasmons; surface plasmon resonance; Introduction The process of localization of waves has been observed in several physical phenomena, such as for excitons in semiconductor nanostructures [1] and
  • revealed a primary particle size of ≈14 nm. For spherical nanoparticles, the condition of plasmon resonance excitation is satisfied when εreal = −2εm, where εreal is the real part of the dielectric constant of the particle material and εm is the dielectric constant of the medium. For nonspherical
  • to the change in plasmon resonance upon aggregation can be similarly described [5][6], along with the resulting modifications in the optical properties [26]. Figure 2a,b shows the SEM images of AuNPs deposited on glass and quartz substrates, respectively. The AuNPs on the glass substrate wet the
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Published 16 Dec 2016

Low temperature co-fired ceramic packaging of CMOS capacitive sensor chip towards cell viability monitoring

  • Niina Halonen,
  • Joni Kilpijärvi,
  • Maciej Sobocinski,
  • Timir Datta-Chaudhuri,
  • Antti Hassinen,
  • Someshekar B. Prakash,
  • Peter Möller,
  • Pamela Abshire,
  • Sakari Kellokumpu and
  • Anita Lloyd Spetz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1871–1877, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.179

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  • viability screening are lethal to the cells. Hence there is a growing interest in noninvasive, label-free, real-time, data-rich biosensing systems that measure electrical, optical, magnetic, or mass related properties of the biological sample. Such sensing techniques include surface plasmon resonance
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Published 29 Nov 2016

Functionalized platinum nanoparticles with surface charge trigged by pH: synthesis, characterization and stability studies

  • Giovanna Testa,
  • Laura Fontana,
  • Iole Venditti and
  • Ilaria Fratoddi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1822–1828, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.175

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  • interest for many technological applications [1][2]. For example PtNPs are of interest due to their catalytic activity [3][4], electrochemical applications [5], chemical sensing [6][7][8][9] and optical features related to surface plasmon resonance (SPR) that occurs in the ultraviolet range of
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Published 24 Nov 2016

Hydrophilic silver nanoparticles with tunable optical properties: application for the detection of heavy metals in water

  • Paolo Prosposito,
  • Federico Mochi,
  • Erica Ciotta,
  • Mauro Casalboni,
  • Fabio De Matteis,
  • Iole Venditti,
  • Laura Fontana,
  • Giovanna Testa and
  • Ilaria Fratoddi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1654–1661, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.157

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  • , University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, P.le A. Moro 5, 00187, Italy 10.3762/bjnano.7.157 Abstract Due their excellent chemo-physical properties and ability to exhibit surface plasmon resonance, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have become a material of choice in various applications, such as nanosensors, electronic
  • nitrate as precursor molecules, hydrophilic thiol (3-mercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid sodium salt, 3MPS) and sodium borohydride as capping and reducing agents, respectively. The AgNPs were characterized using techniques such as surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering (DLS
  • the field of sensors for specific analytes [7][8][9][10]. In particular, given their flexible and easy preparation, large specific surface area, and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) properties, metal nanoparticles are excellent candidates for a wide variety of applications ranging from catalysis [11
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Published 09 Nov 2016

Graphene-enhanced plasmonic nanohole arrays for environmental sensing in aqueous samples

  • Christa Genslein,
  • Peter Hausler,
  • Eva-Maria Kirchner,
  • Rudolf Bierl,
  • Antje J. Baeumner and
  • Thomas Hirsch

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1564–1573, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.150

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  • 10.3762/bjnano.7.150 Abstract The label-free nature of surface plasmon resonance techniques (SPR) enables a fast, specific, and sensitive analysis of molecular interactions. However, detection of highly diluted concentrations and small molecules is still challenging. It is shown here that in contrast to
  • lithography; surface plasmon resonance; Introduction Plasticizers are additives used in plastic industry, personal care products and especially in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) products. The most common plasticizers are phthalate acid esters (PAEs) [1]. Since PAEs are not chemically bound to the polymeric matrix
  • detection limits in the environmental interesting concentration is important for water safety and direly needed. Surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy (SPR) is a widely-used technique for quantifying and characterizing biomolecular interactions in biosensors for medical diagnostics, food safety and
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Published 01 Nov 2016

Localized surface plasmons in structures with linear Au nanoantennas on a SiO2/Si surface

  • Ilya A. Milekhin,
  • Sergei A. Kuznetsov,
  • Ekaterina E. Rodyakina,
  • Alexander G. Milekhin,
  • Alexander V. Latyshev and
  • Dietrich R. T. Zahn

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1519–1526, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.145

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  • between plasmonic excitations of gold nanoantennas and optical phonons in SiO2 leads to the appearance of new plasmon–phonon modes observed in the infrared transmission spectra the frequencies of which are well predicted by the simulations. Keywords: nanoantenna array; localised surface plasmon resonance
  • to a few micrometers, while having a width of about 100 nm that is defined by conventional nanolithography used for nanoantenna fabrication. Such nanoantennas exhibit the effect of the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), which is observed when the eigenfrequency of electron oscillations in
  • fabricated on a 3 nm thick natural silicon oxide layer. This phenomenon is interpreted in terms of the coupling between the antenna's, plasmon resonance and surface phonon–polariton excitations [26]. Similar results were obtained for a thermal SiO2 layer having the thickness of 106 nm, for which the SO
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Published 26 Oct 2016

Photothermal effect of gold nanostar patterns inkjet-printed on coated paper substrates with different permeability

  • Mykola Borzenkov,
  • Anni Määttänen,
  • Petri Ihalainen,
  • Maddalena Collini,
  • Elisa Cabrini,
  • Giacomo Dacarro,
  • Piersandro Pallavicini and
  • Giuseppe Chirico

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1480–1485, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.140

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  • fabrication of analytical and diagnostics tools. These methods could be extended to non-spherical gold nanoparticles that can efficiently release heat locally when irradiated in the near infrared (NIR) wavelength region, due to localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). However, this promising application
  • number of printed layers, and, critically, on the permeability of the coated paper substrates. These results will promote the development of GNS-based printed platforms for local photothermal therapy. Keywords: gold nanostars; inkjet printing; localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR); photothermal
  • localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). Highly localized and controlled hyperthermal effects can be obtained under excitation in resonance with the LSPR and applied for local hyperthermic treatments in life sciences [16][17]. In this study, we used well-characterized pentatwinned branched GNS with an
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Published 19 Oct 2016

Electric field induced structural colour tuning of a silver/titanium dioxide nanoparticle one-dimensional photonic crystal

  • Eduardo Aluicio-Sarduy,
  • Simone Callegari,
  • Diana Gisell Figueroa del Valle,
  • Andrea Desii,
  • Ilka Kriegel and
  • Francesco Scotognella

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1404–1410, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.131

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  • plasmon resonance of the silver nanoparticles. The shift of the photonic band gap is about 10 nm for an applied potential of only 10 V. In Figure S7 of Supporting Information File 1 we show that at voltages above 15 V the shift saturates up to a value of about 16–17 nm. Notably, the observed shifts of
  • the alternating silver and titanium dioxide nanoparticle layers. In the following we provide an interpretation for the observed blue shift of the photonic band gap as well as the silver plasmon resonance by applying an electric field and making a simple assumption. We consider the plasma frequency ωp
  • as given in [28] and two artificially increased carrier densities. Similar to the experimental results, the calculated transmission spectra show an intense band in the UV/blue region ascribed to the plasmon resonance of the silver layer and a second band corresponding to the photonic bandgap. Note
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Tunable longitudinal modes in extended silver nanoparticle assemblies

  • Serene S. Bayram,
  • Klas Lindfors and
  • Amy Szuchmacher Blum

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1219–1228, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.113

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  • triggered or directed by solution conditions such as temperature, illumination, pH and metal ion concentration [21]. Amongst the various self-assembled nanostructures, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are of great significance due to their sharp plasmon resonance, the antimicrobial function and a distinguished
  • valence electrons. For example, localized plasmon resonance arises from the restoring force exerted on electrons driven by an external field, which results in field amplification in the near-field zone at the particle surface. Alterations in particle size and shape cause a frequency shift in the localized
  • surface plasmon resonance away from the Fröhlich frequency, which defines the dipole surface plasmon of an isolated nanoparticle. Additional frequency shifts arise in particle ensembles due to electromagnetic interactions and coupling between the localized modes. Subsequent highly confined fields, also
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Published 26 Aug 2016

Photocurrent generation in carbon nanotube/cubic-phase HfO2 nanoparticle hybrid nanocomposites

  • Protima Rauwel,
  • Augustinas Galeckas,
  • Martin Salumaa,
  • Frédérique Ducroquet and
  • Erwan Rauwel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1075–1085, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.101

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  • MWCNTs do not emit light but instead expose their discrete electronic structure in the absorption spectra. The hybrid material manifests characteristic absorption features with a gradual merger of the MWCNT π-plasmon resonance band with the intrinsic defect band and fundamental edge of HfO2. The
  • typically the vHS-related bandgap transitions are observed in CNTs, such as E22 from the semiconducting SWCNT and E11 from the metallic SWCNT [39]. At higher photon energies, a broad absorption band emerging at around 4.5 eV is likely due to the π-plasmon resonance [40][41]. This feature gradually merges
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Published 26 Jul 2016

Sandwich-like layer-by-layer assembly of gold nanoparticles with tunable SERS properties

  • Zhicheng Liu,
  • Lu Bai,
  • Guizhe Zhao and
  • Yaqing Liu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1028–1032, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.95

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  • ; polyelectrolyte; Introduction Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy, which relies on metal nanostructures made of noble metals (Au, Ag and Cu) that sustain localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), is applied as a promising analytical tool for detecting and identifying trace amounts of
  • sodium citrate solution was injected, as shown in Figure 1. The optical absorption peaks located at 520 and 532 nm indicate the strong surface plasmon resonance of the NPs. These uniform negatively charged citrate-protected Au NPs could be readily used in electrostatic LbL assembly. Typical sandwich-like
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Published 15 Jul 2016

A terahertz-vibration to terahertz-radiation converter based on gold nanoobjects: a feasibility study

  • Kamil Moldosanov and
  • Andrei Postnikov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 983–989, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.90

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  • . [3] on plasmon resonance Raman scattering. For the microwave irradiation, a standard domestic microwave oven would offer a simple practical source at νRF = 2.45 GHz, i.e., hνRF ≈ 1.01·10−2 meV. As this is much smaller than the above phonon-related values, the peak outcome of the THz radiation is not
  • text for details. Vibrational density of states of gold as extracted from (a) inelastic neutron scattering on thick foils [2], (b) plasmon resonance Raman scattering on nanocrystals [3] (green dots) and reconstructed from force constants fitted to inelastic neutron scattering data from massive single
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Published 06 Jul 2016

Large-scale fabrication of achiral plasmonic metamaterials with giant chiroptical response

  • Morten Slyngborg,
  • Yao-Chung Tsao and
  • Peter Fojan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 914–925, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.83

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  • excitation of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waves. Compared to the localized surface plasmon resonance from PCMs, SPP waves from ECMs are extremely sensitive to the angle of incidence and less sensitive to structural imperfections [13]. Furthermore, ECMs are defined by having a zero response angle, which
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Published 24 Jun 2016

The role of morphology and coupling of gold nanoparticles in optical breakdown during picosecond pulse exposures

  • Yevgeniy R. Davletshin and
  • J. Carl Kumaradas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 869–880, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.79

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  • interactions at the nanoscale using nanoparticles. This relies on the unique tunable optical properties of gold nanoparticle stemming from the interaction of light with the quasi-free electrons in gold. The oscillation of these electrons induces surface plasmon resonance, resulting in the enhancement of the
  • incident electric field in the vicinity of the nanoparticle. This can result in secondary phenomena associated with laser pulse interaction, such as heating of the surrounding media, acoustic wave formation and optical breakdown. The surface plasmon resonance is tunable over a wide range of frequencies and
  • plasmon resonance coupling that occurs at distances of less than 2.5 diameters between the surfaces of two adjacent nanoparticles [4]. This effect depends on the orientation, spacing and shape of the adjacent nanoparticles [9][13][14][15]. The plasmon coupling effect broadens and shifts the plasmon
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Published 16 Jun 2016

Highly compact refractive index sensor based on stripe waveguides for lab-on-a-chip sensing applications

  • Chamanei Perera,
  • Kristy Vernon,
  • Elliot Cheng,
  • Juna Sathian,
  • Esa Jaatinen and
  • Timothy Davis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 751–757, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.66

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  • highly sensitive to the surrounding dielectric environment. This unique property is incredibly useful in sensing applications. Mach–Zehnder (MZ) interferometry [1][2][3][4][5], surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) [6][7][8][9], ring resonators [10] and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) [11][12][13
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Published 25 May 2016

Gold nanoparticles covalently assembled onto vesicle structures as possible biosensing platform

  • M. Fátima Barroso,
  • M. Alejandra Luna,
  • Juan S. Flores Tabares,
  • Cristina Delerue-Matos,
  • N. Mariano Correa,
  • Fernando Moyano and
  • Patricia G. Molina

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 655–663, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.58

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  • ]. Note, that when the AuNPs are formed after 8 and 13 min of UV irradiation, bands corresponding to the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) around 520 or 550 nm appeared. This maximum wavelength (λmax) is in accordance with other reported studies [26][29][30], and the small differences founded in the λmax
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Fabrication and properties of luminescence polymer composites with erbium/ytterbium oxides and gold nanoparticles

  • Julia A. Burunkova,
  • Ihor Yu. Denisiuk,
  • Dmitri I. Zhuk,
  • Lajos Daroczi,
  • Attila Csik,
  • István Csarnovics and
  • Sándor Kokenyesi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 630–636, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.55

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  • nanoparticles should be located around the silicon oxide nanoparticles, which prevents their agglomeration up to 0.15 wt % of content and the plasmon resonance absorbance spectra are observable in the polymer nanocomposite. The measurement with a laser scanning microscope (pump wavelength of 488 nm) has shown
  • effect can be even larger, since the luminescence excitation wavelength was only at the short wavelength side of the plasmon resonance spectrum. But at the same time the emitted light is just in the optimum range for such excitation, so certain self-enhancement effects take place in our nanocomposites
  • distribution of Au and Er/Yb oxide nanoparticles within the matrix polymer. Absorbance bands of Er oxide and AuNPs plasmon resonance absorbance are present in the spectra of nanocomposites. Er luminescence in nanocomposites is enhanced by almost one order of magnitude in the presence of plasmon fields of
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Published 26 Apr 2016

Novel roles for well-known players: from tobacco mosaic virus pests to enzymatically active assemblies

  • Claudia Koch,
  • Fabian J. Eber,
  • Carlos Azucena,
  • Alexander Förste,
  • Stefan Walheim,
  • Thomas Schimmel,
  • Alexander M. Bittner,
  • Holger Jeske,
  • Hartmut Gliemann,
  • Sabine Eiben,
  • Fania C. Geiger and
  • Christina Wege

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 613–629, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.54

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  • transduction occurs without a need of reporter molecules, e.g., by optical, electrochemical, mass- or surface plasmon resonance-sensitive techniques [171][172]. The development of site-selective and highly efficient methods for the application of TMV on inorganic or polymeric surfaces (Figure 9) has paved the
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Published 25 Apr 2016

Investigating organic multilayers by spectroscopic ellipsometry: specific and non-specific interactions of polyhistidine with NTA self-assembled monolayers

  • Ilaria Solano,
  • Pietro Parisse,
  • Ornella Cavalleri,
  • Federico Gramazio,
  • Loredana Casalis and
  • Maurizio Canepa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 544–553, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.48

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  • . Optical methods based on optical reflectivity, such as surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and ellipsometry, allow for label-free, non-invasive, in situ monitoring of molecular adsorption/desorption at surfaces [34][35][36][37][38][39][40]. While SPR-based methods require supports with specific plasmonic
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Published 13 Apr 2016

Antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles obtained by pulsed laser ablation in pure water and in chloride solution

  • Brunella Perito,
  • Emilia Giorgetti,
  • Paolo Marsili and
  • Maurizio Muniz-Miranda

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 465–473, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.40

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  • (blue line). In the latter case, the plasmon resonance appears blue-shifted in both ps and ns samples. Such a shift could be attributed either to a change in the dielectric constant of the liquid environment or, more reasonably, to the different oxidation grade of the NP surfaces, where the NPs obtained
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Published 18 Mar 2016

Early breast cancer screening using iron/iron oxide-based nanoplatforms with sub-femtomolar limits of detection

  • Dinusha N. Udukala,
  • Hongwang Wang,
  • Sebastian O. Wendel,
  • Aruni P. Malalasekera,
  • Thilani N. Samarakoon,
  • Asanka S. Yapa,
  • Gayani Abayaweera,
  • Matthew T. Basel,
  • Pamela Maynez,
  • Raquel Ortega,
  • Yubisela Toledo,
  • Leonie Bossmann,
  • Colette Robinson,
  • Katharine E. Janik,
  • Olga B. Koper,
  • Ping Li,
  • Massoud Motamedi,
  • Daniel A. Higgins,
  • Gary Gadbury,
  • Gaohong Zhu,
  • Deryl L. Troyer and
  • Stefan H. Bossmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 364–373, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.33

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  • sequence. A second dye (cyanine 5.5) is permanently linked to the dopamine coating (Figure 1). This design enables both, plasmon-resonance quenching (SET) [20][21] and Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) quenching [20][22] of the tethered TCPP units. Once TCPP is released via proteolytic cleavage of
  • the consensus sequence, its fluorescence will increase (for most of the nanoplatforms). The nanoplatforms for cancer detection are based on proteolytic cleavage of TCPP from the Fe/Fe3O4-core (Figure 2). Increasing the distance between the TCPP fluorophore and the nanoparticle decreases plasmon
  • -resonance quenching (dipole–surface energy transfer (SET) [20][21]) from TCPP to Fe/Fe3O4 and Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET [20][22]) from TCPP to cyanine 5.5. The latter is permanently tethered to the inorganic nanoparticle. For all of the employed consensus sequences, with the exceptions of
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Published 07 Mar 2016

Hemolysin coregulated protein 1 as a molecular gluing unit for the assembly of nanoparticle hybrid structures

  • Tuan Anh Pham,
  • Andreas Schreiber,
  • Elena V. Sturm (née Rosseeva),
  • Stefan Schiller and
  • Helmut Cölfen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 351–363, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.32

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  • described in the Experimental section. First, we investigated the influence of ionic strength on the assembly process of Au NPs. In Figure 2, the UV–vis spectra of a Au NP solution with 2 equiv Hcp1_cys3 at different ionic strengths are shown. At low ionic strength (0–6 mmol/L) the surface plasmon resonance
  • only takes place for the Hcp1_cys3-functionalized NPs, where the citrate-stabilized Au NPs remain stable as evidenced by their unchanged surface plasmon resonance at 520 nm. When the NaCl concentration exceeded 12 mM, a prompt color change to blue followed by precipitation of a blue solid was observed
  • overview spectra (Figure 3A) a red shift of the transversal 520 nm plasmon resonance peak to 530 nm is observed with time and the appearance of a second longitudinal peak first around 617 nm then shifting to 650 nm at the end of the reaction. This peak position around 650 nm stays constant after 18 h. In
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Published 04 Mar 2016

Mismatch detection in DNA monolayers by atomic force microscopy and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

  • Maryse D. Nkoua Ngavouka,
  • Pietro Capaldo,
  • Elena Ambrosetti,
  • Giacinto Scoles,
  • Loredana Casalis and
  • Pietro Parisse

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 220–227, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.20

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  • : hybridization-based detection, detection based on thermal denaturation and protein-mediated detection [5]. For each strategy, different read-out systems and experimental designs have been reported, which include fluorescence [13], surface plasmon resonance [14][15], electrochemical [16][17], atomic force
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Published 09 Feb 2016

Characterisation of thin films of graphene–surfactant composites produced through a novel semi-automated method

  • Nik J. Walch,
  • Alexei Nabok,
  • Frank Davis and
  • Séamus P. J. Higson

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 209–219, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.19

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  • -coated glass using a method of total internal reflection ellipsometry (TIRE) which revealed the enhancement of the surface plasmon resonance in thin gold films by depositing graphene layers. Keywords: characterization; ellipsometry; graphene; 1H NMR; surfactant; Introduction Since its initial discovery
  • similar manner. TIRE study The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) phenomenon in graphene films deposited on thin films of gold was studied in more detail using the method of total internal reflection ellipsometry (TIRE), which was developed in the last decade [12][13][14]. TIRE experimental set-up (shown
  • of deposited layers. It is quite remarkable to observe spectral features around the plasmon-resonance frequency of the gold substrate, which are not related to graphene itself [22][23] but rather appeared as a result of the interaction of π-electrons in graphene with free electrons in the gold film
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Published 08 Feb 2016

Linear and nonlinear optical properties of hybrid metallic–dielectric plasmonic nanoantennas

  • Mario Hentschel,
  • Bernd Metzger,
  • Bastian Knabe,
  • Karsten Buse and
  • Harald Giessen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 111–120, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.13

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  • particles at their respective plasmon resonance. It was also shown that rough metallic films led to enhanced second-harmonic generation [25][26] as well as to enhanced Raman scattering [27][28][29][30] and that both phenomena are related to local field hot spots in the metallic films. The nonlinear optical
  • exists inside the gap (in the lower row the particles have been marked for clarity). Thirdly, recent reports suggest that the nonlinearity of gold is very strong. The emission of thin layers, boosted by the presence of a plasmon resonance, yields strong signals [40][44]. We wanted to suppress the strong
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