Single Silver Nanoparticles as Real-Time Optical Sensors with Zeptomole Sensitivity Export

@article{mcfarland_single_03, abstract = {This work utilizes dark-field optical microscopy to demonstrate the localized surface plasmon resonance lambdamax response of individual Ag nanoparticles to the formation of a monolayer of small-molecule adsorbates. The adsorption of fewer than 60 000 1-hexadecanethiol molecules on single Ag nanoparticles results in a localized surface plasmon resonance shift of 40.7 nm. Additionally, the kinetics of the single nanoparticle response was shown to be comparable to that of other real-time sensor technologies.}, author = {McFarland, Adam D. and Van Duyne, Richard P.}, citeulike-article-id = {5984421}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl034372s}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl034372s}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1021/nl034372s}, journal = {Nano Letters}, keywords = {dark-field, lithography, lspr, nsl, sam, silver, single, spectroscopy, thiol}, month = {August}, number = {8}, pages = {1057--1062}, posted-at = {2009-10-22 11:38:02}, priority = {2}, title = {Single Silver Nanoparticles as Real-Time Optical Sensors with Zeptomole Sensitivity}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl034372s}, volume = {3}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - mcfarland_single_03 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5984421 N2 - This work utilizes dark-field optical microscopy to demonstrate the localized surface plasmon resonance lambdamax response of individual Ag nanoparticles to the formation of a monolayer of small-molecule adsorbates. The adsorption of fewer than 60 000 1-hexadecanethiol molecules on single Ag nanoparticles results in a localized surface plasmon resonance shift of 40.7 nm. Additionally, the kinetics of the single nanoparticle response was shown to be comparable to that of other real-time sensor technologies. IS - 8 JF - Nano Letters EP - 1062 TI - Single Silver Nanoparticles as Real-Time Optical Sensors with Zeptomole Sensitivity VL - 3 SP - 1057 KW - dark-field KW - lithography KW - lspr KW - nsl KW - sam KW - silver KW - single KW - spectroscopy KW - thiol AU - McFarland, Adam AU - Van Duyne, Richard PY - 2003/08/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl034372s ER -