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SUBMITTER: Fazio B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4887892 | biostudies-other | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Fazio Barbara B D'Andrea Cristiano C Foti Antonino A Messina Elena E Irrera Alessia A Donato Maria Grazia MG Villari Valentina V Micali Norberto N Maragò Onofrio M OM Gucciardi Pietro G PG
Scientific reports 20160601
Strategies for in-liquid molecular detection via Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) are currently based on chemically-driven aggregation or optical trapping of metal nanoparticles in presence of the target molecules. Such strategies allow the formation of SERS-active clusters that efficiently embed the molecule at the "hot spots" of the nanoparticles and enhance its Raman scattering by orders of magnitude. Here we report on a novel scheme that exploits the radiation pressure to locally pus ...[more]