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Plasmonic nanosensors

Inverse sensitivity

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Enzyme-modified plasmonic nanoparticles that generate a signal that is larger when the concentration of the target molecule is lower can detect ultralow levels of the cancer biomarker prostate-specific antigen in whole serum.

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Figure 1: The inverse-sensitivity mechanism of enzyme-modified plasmonic nanosensors2.

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  1. Mikael Käll is at the Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden,

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