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Nature Materials 6, 259 - 260 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat1874

Biosensors: Plasmons spring into action

Catherine J. Murphy1

  1. Catherine J. Murphy is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA. e-mail: murphy@mail.chem.sc.edu


The integration of semiconducting nanowires and metallic nanoparticles in a single device leads to a biosensor with enhanced sensitivity that detects molecules over a broad range of concentrations.

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