TY - JOUR
T1 - Novel plasmonic probes and smart superhydrophobic devices, New tools for forthcoming spectroscopies at the nanoscale
AU - Giugni, Andrea
AU - Torre, Bruno
AU - Allione, Marco
AU - Gentile, Francesco T.
AU - Candeloro, Patrizio
AU - Coluccio, Maria Laura
AU - Perozziello, Gerardo
AU - Limongi, Tania
AU - Marini, Monica
AU - Raimondo, Raffaella
AU - Tirinato, Luca
AU - Francardi, Marco
AU - Das, Gobind
AU - Proietti Zaccaria, Remo
AU - Falqui, Andrea
AU - Di Fabrizio, Enzo M.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2014/8/11
Y1 - 2014/8/11
N2 - In this work we review novel strategies and new physical effects to achieve compositional and structural recognition at single molecule level. This chapter is divided in two main parts. The first one introduces the strategies currently adopted to investigate matter at few molecules level. Exploiting the capability of surface plasmon polaritons to deliver optical excitation at nanoscale, we introduce a technique relying on a new transport phenomenon with chemical sensitivity and nanometer spatial resolution. The second part describes how micro and nanostructured superhydrofobic textures can concentrate and localize a small number of molecules into a well-defined region, even when only an extremely diluted solution is available. Several applications of these devices as micro- and nano-systems for high-resolution imaging techniques, cell cultures and tissue engineering applications are also discussed.
AB - In this work we review novel strategies and new physical effects to achieve compositional and structural recognition at single molecule level. This chapter is divided in two main parts. The first one introduces the strategies currently adopted to investigate matter at few molecules level. Exploiting the capability of surface plasmon polaritons to deliver optical excitation at nanoscale, we introduce a technique relying on a new transport phenomenon with chemical sensitivity and nanometer spatial resolution. The second part describes how micro and nanostructured superhydrofobic textures can concentrate and localize a small number of molecules into a well-defined region, even when only an extremely diluted solution is available. Several applications of these devices as micro- and nano-systems for high-resolution imaging techniques, cell cultures and tissue engineering applications are also discussed.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563701
UR - http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-94-017-9133-5_8
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84921644137&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-017-9133-5_8
DO - 10.1007/978-94-017-9133-5_8
M3 - Article
SN - 1874-6500
VL - 68
SP - 209
EP - 235
JO - NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
JF - NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
ER -