Plasmonic Sensor and Surface Enhanced Fluorescence Imaging Based on Hollow Nanocone Arrays
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Materials
2.2. Fabrication of Obverse and Inverse Hollow Nanocone Array Films
2.3. Preparation of the Fluorescent Film
2.4. Cell Seeding and Staining
2.5. Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Calculations
2.6. Characterization
3. Results and Discussions
3.1. Fabrication Process and Characterization
3.2. Optical Properties and FDTD Calculations
3.3. Sensing Performance
3.4. Surface Enhanced Fluorescence
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Chen, P.; Chen, X.; Cheng, M.; Zhang, C.; Cui, J.; Ai, B. Plasmonic Sensor and Surface Enhanced Fluorescence Imaging Based on Hollow Nanocone Arrays. Chemosensors 2022, 10, 431. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors10100431
Chen P, Chen X, Cheng M, Zhang C, Cui J, Ai B. Plasmonic Sensor and Surface Enhanced Fluorescence Imaging Based on Hollow Nanocone Arrays. Chemosensors. 2022; 10(10):431. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors10100431
Chicago/Turabian StyleChen, Pengkun, Xinyi Chen, Mingyu Cheng, Chuting Zhang, Jin Cui, and Bin Ai. 2022. "Plasmonic Sensor and Surface Enhanced Fluorescence Imaging Based on Hollow Nanocone Arrays" Chemosensors 10, no. 10: 431. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors10100431