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Hydrogen caught red-faced

Nature Materials volume 10, pages 560–561 (2011)Cite this article

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A single nanodevice that detects the presence of a single molecule would perhaps be the ultimate sensor. The demonstration of hydrogen sensing based on a single gold nanoaerial brings that possibility nearer.

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Figure 1: Schematic of resonant gold nanoaerial.

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  1. Roy Sambles is in the School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK,

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