Ultraviolet Plasmonic Chirality from Colloidal Aluminum Nanoparticles Exhibiting Charge-Selective Protein Detection

McPeak KM; van Engers CD; Bianchi S; Rossinelli A; Poulikakos LV; Bernard L; Herrmann S; Kim DK; Burger S; Blome M; Jayanti SV; Norris DJ

Advanced Materials, Vol.27, No.40, 6244-6250, 2015

DOI10.1002/adma.201503493 Export Citation

Ultraviolet Plasmonic Chirality from Colloidal Aluminum Nanoparticles Exhibiting Charge-Selective Protein Detection

McPeak KM, van Engers CD, Bianchi S, Rossinelli A, Poulikakos LV, Bernard L, Herrmann S, Kim DK, Burger S, Blome M, Jayanti SV, Norris DJ

Chiral aluminum nanoparticles, dispersed in water, are prepared, which provide strong ultraviolet plasmonic circular dichroism, high-energy superchiral near-fields, and charge-selective protein detection.

Keywords:metal nanoparticles;circular dichroism;chiral nanopyramids;protein adsorption and detection;ultraviolet plasmonics