Publications

Surface-Anchored Metal-Organic Frameworks – SURMOFs: A New Material Platform for Sensors

09 Dec 2015

The application of surface-anchored metal-organic frameworks (SURMOFs) as highly porous host materials for molecules in the field of nanoplasmonic sensing (NPS) is reported. SURMOFs are grown by a layer-bylayer procedure… Read more

Plasmonic Nanohole Sensor for Capturing Single Virus-Like Particles toward Virucidal Drug Evaluation.

09 Oct 2015

A plasmonic nanohole sensor for virus-like particle capture and virucidal drug evaluation is reported. Using a materials-selective surface functionalization scheme, passive immobilization of virus-like particles only within the nanoholes is… Read more

Nanoplasmonic ruler to measure lipid vesicle deformation

01 Oct 2015

A nanoplasmonic ruler method is presented in order to measure the deformation of adsorbed, nm-scale lipid vesicles on solid supports. It is… Read more

UV-vis and Plasmonic Nano-Spectroscopy of the CO2 Adsorption Energetics in Microporous Polymers

28 Sep 2015

In the context of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), micro- and mesoporous polymers have received significant attention due… Read more

Reduction of Cu-Promoted Fe Model Catalysts Studied by In Situ Indirect Nanoplasmonic Sensing and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

23 Jan 2015

The reduction of Cu-promoted Fe model catalysts was investigated… Read more

Contribution of Temperature to Deformation of Adsorbed Vesicles Studied by Nanoplasmonic Biosensing

20 Jan 2015

With increasing temperature, biological macromolecules and nanometer-sized aggregates typically… Read more

Unravelling the Dependence of Hydrogen Oxidation Kinetics on the Size of Pt Nanoparticles by in Operando Nanoplasmonic Temperature Sensing

05 Dec 2014

We use a noninvasive nanoscale optical-temperature measurement method based on localized surface plasmon resonance to investigate the particle size-dependence of the hydrogen oxidation reaction kinetics on model supported Pt nanocatalysts… Read more

In situ Plasmonic Sensing of Platinum Model Catalyst Sintering on Different Oxide Supports and in O2 and NO2 Atmospheres with Different Concentrations

01 Dec 2014

Improved understanding of thermal deactivation processes of supported nanoparticles via sintering is needed in order to increase the lifetime of catalysts. To monitor sintering processes under industrially relevant application conditions,… Read more

Controlling Lipid Membrane Architecture for Tunable Nanoplasmonic Biosensing

30 Jul 2014

Tunable nanoplasmonic biosensing for lipid and protein applications is reported based on controlling lipid membrane architecture on surfaces. The interaction of a peptide with lipid membranes is highly sensitive to… Read more

Nanoplasmonic Biosensing for Soft Matter Adsorption: Kinetics of Lipid Vesicle Attachment and Shape Deformation

04 Jul 2014

An indirect nanoplasmonic sensing platform is reported for investigating the kinetics of attachment and shape deformation associated with lipid vesicle adsorption onto a titanium oxide-coated substrate. The localized surface plasmon… Read more