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Published on: November 29, 2014
Plasmonic nanodisc arrays on calcinated titania for multimodal analysis of phosphorylated peptides
Samuel S Hinman1, Romie C T Nguyen2, Quan Cheng1,2
1Environmental Toxicology, University of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA quan.cheng@ucr.edu; ; Tel: +1-951-827-2702.
Abstract:
A hybrid material of gold nanodiscs on a calcinated titania nanofilm that allows for selective quantitative and qualitative characterization of surface-enriched phosphopeptides has been designed and reported. Fabrication was realized through a combination of layer-by-layer deposition and high temperature calcination for the titania, and hole-mask colloidal lithography for the plasmonic nanostructures. The morphology of the resulting titania material was rigorously characterized, exhibiting substantially decreased surface roughness, which allows for lithographic fabrication of plasmonic nanostructures. Moreover, high specificity in adsorption and enrichment of phosphopeptides was exhibited, which was verified by LSPR shifts and matching peaks under mass spectrometric analysis. The construction of these biochips should inform other combinatorial nanofabrication techniques, in addition to allowing future phosphoproteomic analyses to be performed in a time and resource-efficient manner.
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