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Author Spotlight: Single-Molecule Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Measurements Enabled by Plasmonic DNA Origami Nanoantennas
Published on: July 21, 2023
Investigating nanoparticle properties in plasmonic nanoarchitectures with DNA by surface plasmon resonance imaging
Stefano Mariani1, Simona Scarano, Maria Laura Ermini
1Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff", Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy. massimo.bonini@unifi.it bonini@csgi.it maria.minunni@unifi.it.
Abstract:
Nanoparticles with different sizes, refractive indices and plasmonic profiles are synthesized, labelled with DNA and embedded in DNA-based plasmonic nanoarchitectures. The contribution of the different properties to reflectivity variation % is rationally investigated by DNA hybridization measurements using the surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRi) technology.

