MIGHTY 'PEN' FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

摘要

Plasmonic nanoparticles, which confine and amplify light in an ultrasmall volume by localizing and combining collective oscillations of free electrons with electromagnetic waves, have already proven useful for a variety of applications, including certain spectroscopies, photovoltaics, and plasmonic catalysis. In a new Perspective, Jwa-Min Nam and co-workers describe a rapidly expanding new arena for these materials: as plasmoni-cally engineered nanoprobes (PENs) for biomedical applications (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b094Sl).