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Nanoporous Gold Nanoparticles and Arrays for Label-Free Nanoplasmonic Biosensing

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Surface plasmons (SP) are depicted in the classical picture as a fundamental electromagnetic mode of an interface between a metal (or a semi-conductor) and a dielectric medium and involving surface collective electronic oscilSurface plasmonslations Dror and William (Modern introduction to surface plasmons. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, [1]).

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  1. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun Rd, Houston, TX, 77204, USA

    Camille G. Artur & Wei-Chuan Shih

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA

    Wei-Chuan Shih

  3. Program of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA

    Wei-Chuan Shih

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA

    Wei-Chuan Shih

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Artur, C.G., Shih, WC. (2018). Nanoporous Gold Nanoparticles and Arrays for Label-Free Nanoplasmonic Biosensing. In: Oh, SH., Escobedo, C., Brolo, A. (eds) Miniature Fluidic Devices for Rapid Biological Detection. Integrated Analytical Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64747-0_2

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