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Plasmonic biosensors

Know your molecules

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A new plasmonic sensing platform that not only allows the detection of ultrasmall quantities of biomolecules, but is also sensitive to their identity and conformational state, represents a significant advance in the study of biomolecular interactions.

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Figure 1: Scheme of the FRAMM platform for detection of nanometre-scale protein monolayers using ultra-sensitive infrared spectroscopy.

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  1. Na Liu is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA,

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  2. Annemarie Pucci is at the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany,

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Liu, N., Pucci, A. Know your molecules. Nature Mater 11, 9–10 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3199

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