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Cover Picture: Plasmon Shaping by using Protein Nanoarrays and Molecular Lithography to Engineer Structural Color (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 15/2012)
Author(s) -
Clark Alasdair W.,
Cooper Jonathan M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201201326
Subject(s) - plasmon , nanotechnology , lithography , cover (algebra) , nanolithography , nanoparticle , naked eye , materials science , chemistry , optoelectronics , engineering , fabrication , mechanical engineering , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , chromatography , detection limit
Molecular binding events can be used to construct complex arrays and systems of plasmonic nanoparticles, as well as to influence the brilliant colors exhibited by these structures. In their Communication on page 3562 ff., J. M. Cooper and A. W. Clark demonstrate an engineered approach to a molecularly mediated plasmonic sensor in which direct‐write nanolithography is combined with nanoscale protein patterning and an antibody binding assay to enable naked‐eye detection of single protein binding at extreme sensitivities.