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• Article | 28 March 2016

  Extreme sensitivity biosensing platform based on hyperbolic metamaterials

  A highly sensitive plasmonic biosensor, based on hyperbolic metamaterials, can detect biomolecules of ultralow molecular weight at picomolar concentrations.

  • Kandammathe Valiyaveedu Sreekanth
  • , Yunus Alapan
  •  & Giuseppe Strangi

• Research Highlights | 17 December 2014

  Biogenic delivery

  • Alison Stoddart

• Research Highlights | 22 August 2013

  Sniffing out cancer

  • Alison Stoddart

• Research Highlights | 23 July 2013

  Branches reduce blinking

  • Alison Stoddart

• Letter | 17 July 2011

  Maltodextrin-based imaging probes detect bacteria in vivo with high sensitivity and specificity

  The in vivo optical detection of bacterial infections requires highly specific imaging probes with small affinity to mammalian tissue. It is now shown that fluorescent dyes that are conjugated to maltohexaose can be internalized rapidly via the bacteria-specific maltodextrin transport pathway, enabling the in vivo imaging of Escherichia coli down to 10⁵ colony-forming units.

  • Xinghai Ning
  • , Seungjun Lee
  •  & Niren Murthy

• Review Article | 23 August 2010

  The Fano resonance in plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials

  • Boris Luk'yanchuk
  • , Nikolay I. Zheludev
  •  & Chong Tow Chong