Vertically aligned gold nanorod monolayer on arbitrary substrates : self-assembly and femtomolar detection of food contaminants

• Main Authors: Peng, Bo, Li, Guangyuan, Li, Dehui, Dodson, Stephanie, Zhang, Qing, Zhang, Jun, Lee, Yih Hong, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Ling, Xing Yi, Xiong, Qihua
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99852; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16955
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Public attention to the food scandals raises an urgent need to develop effective and reliable methods to detect food contaminants. The current prevailing detections are primarily based upon liquid chromatography, mass spectroscopy, or colorimetric methods, which usually require sophisticated and tim...