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Letter

Nature Materials 6, 291–295 (1 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/nmat1869

Exciton|[ndash]|plasmon interactions in molecular spring assemblies of nanowires and wavelength-based protein detection

Jaebeom Lee , Pedro Hernandez , Jungwoo Lee , Alexander O. Govorov & Nicholas A. Kotov

Electronic interactions at the nanoscale represent one of the fundamental problems of nanotechnology. Excitons and plasmons are the two most typical excited states of nanostructures, which have been shown to produce coupled electronic systems.