Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Optical imaging of localized chemical events using programmable diamond quantum nanosensors

  • Torsten Rendler,
  • Jitka Neburkova,
  • Ondrej Zemek,
  • Jan Kotek,
  • Andrea Zappe,
  • Zhiqin Chu,
  • Petr Cigler,
  • Jörg Wrachtrup

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14701
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The use of nanoscale sensors capable of detection of biological parameters is of great interest in diagnosis. Here, the authors use experimental and theoretical methods to develop a nanodiamond sensor with nitrogen vacancy defects for detection of pH and redox in a microfluidic device.