Active plasmonics: principles, structures, and applications

N Jiang, X Zhuo, J Wang - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Active plasmonics is a burgeoning and challenging subfield of plasmonics. It exploits the
active control of surface plasmon resonance. In this review, a first-ever in-depth description …

Stimuli‐responsive optical nanomaterials

Z Li, Y Yin - Advanced materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Responsive optical nanomaterials that can sense and translate various external stimuli into
optical signals, in the forms of observable changes in appearance and variations in spectral …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies for enhancing the sensitivity of plasmonic nanosensors

L Guo, JA Jackman, HH Yang, P Chen, NJ Cho… - Nano Today, 2015 - Elsevier
Based on the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of metallic nanoparticles,
plasmonic nanosensors have emerged as a powerful tool for biosensing applications. Many …

[HTML][HTML] From cascaded catalytic nucleic acids to enzyme–DNA nanostructures: controlling reactivity, sensing, logic operations, and assembly of complex structures

F Wang, CH Lu, I Willner - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
DNA is one of the most fascinating biopolymers. Besides its central role as carrier of genetic
information and translation of the genetic code into proteins, DNA holds great promise as a …

Oriented gold nanoparticle aggregation for colorimetric sensors with surprisingly high analytical figures of merit

L Guo, Y Xu, AR Ferhan, G Chen… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The common drawbacks of current colorimetric sensors using gold nanoparticle aggregation
is its relatively low sensitivity and narrow dynamic range, which restrict their application in …

Plasmonic biosensors

RT Hill - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The unique optical properties of plasmon resonant nanostructures enable exploration of
nanoscale environments using relatively simple optical characterization techniques. For this …

Chiroplasmonic DNA-based nanostructures

A Cecconello, LV Besteiro, AO Govorov… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Chiroplasmonic properties of nanoparticles, organized using DNA-based nanostructures,
have attracted both theoretical and experimental interest. Theory suggests that the circular …

Gold nanorods as colorful chromogenic substrates for semiquantitative detection of nucleic acids, proteins, and small molecules with the naked eye

X Ma, Z Chen, P Kannan, Z Lin, B Qiu… - Analytical chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report for the first time a colorful chromogenic substrate, which displays vivid
color responses in the presence of different concentration of analytes. Our investigation …

Light-triggered reversible self-assembly of gold nanoparticle oligomers for tunable SERS

L Zhang, L Dai, Y Rong, Z Liu, D Tong, Y Huang… - Langmuir, 2015 - ACS Publications
A photoresponsive amphiphilic gold nanoparticle (AuNP) is achieved through the decoration
of AuNP with hydrophilic poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG) and hydrophobic photoresponsive …

Colorimetric detection of microcystin-LR based on disassembly of orient-aggregated gold nanoparticle dimers

F Wang, S Liu, M Lin, X Chen, S Lin, X Du, H Li… - Biosensors and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Recently we demonstrated oriented formation of gold nanoparticle (AuNP) dimers for
ultrasensitive sensing oligonucleotides (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 12338). Herein, we …