Buoyant particulate strategy for few-to-single particle-based plasmonic enhanced nanosensors

Dongjie Zhang; Leqin Peng; Xinglong Shang; Wenxiu Zheng; Hongjun You; Teng Xu; Bo Ma; Bin Ren; Jixiang Fang

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16329-y

Nature Communications (May 2020)

Buoyant particulate strategy for few-to-single particle-based plasmonic enhanced nanosensors

Dongjie Zhang,
Leqin Peng,
Xinglong Shang,
Wenxiu Zheng,
Hongjun You,
Teng Xu,
Bo Ma,
Bin Ren,
Jixiang Fang

Affiliations

Dongjie Zhang: Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Leqin Peng: State Key Lab of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xinglong Shang: State Key Lab of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Wenxiu Zheng: State Key Lab of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Hongjun You: Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Teng Xu: Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bo Ma: Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bin Ren: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Jixiang Fang: Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16329-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Plasmonic-enhanced nanosensors are limited in practical applications, as it remains challenging to detect molecules at low concentrations. Here, the authors introduce a buoyant particulate strategy in order to enrich analytes in the plasmonic hot spots.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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