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Label-free SERS Discrimination of Native Proline Hydroxylation at Single-molecule peptide by Deep Learning-assisted plasmonic nanopore
Yingqi Zhao, Kuo Zhan, Pei-Lin Xin +6
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) play essential roles in regulating protein structure, function, and cellular signalling. However, peptide level discrimination of hydroxylat…
Novel multifunctional plasmonic fiber probe: Enabling plasmonic heating and SERS sensing for biomedical applications
Muhammad Fayyaz Kashif, Di Zheng, Linda Piscopo +8
Optical fiber-based platforms are increasingly explored as compact, minimally invasive tools for integrated photonic functionalities in biomedical applications. Among these, the co…
Label-free SERS Discrimination of Proline from Hydroxylated Proline at Single-molecule Level Assisted by a Deep Learning Model
Yingqi Zhao, Kuo Zhan, Pei-Lin Xin +4
Discriminating the low-abundance hydroxylated proline from hydroxylated proline is crucial for monitoring diseases and eval-uating therapeutic outcomes that require single-molecule…
SAPNet: a deep learning model for identification of single-molecule peptide post-translational modifications with surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Mulusew W. Yaltaye, Yingqi Zhao, Eva Bozo +4
Nanopore resistive pulse sensors are emerging technologies for single-molecule protein sequencing. But they can hardly detect small post-translational modifications (PTMs) such as…
Nanofluidic trapping and enhanced Raman detection of single biomolecules in plasmonic bowl-shaped nanopore
Yingqi Zhao, Aliaksandr Hubarevich, Jian-An Huang +1
Solid-state nanopores are emerging platforms for single-molecule protein sequencing due to their tolerance to hash physiology environment and compatibility with different electrica…
Nonlinear Hall effect as a local probe of plasmonic magnetic hot spots
Karina A. Guerrero-Becerra, Andrea Tomadin, Andrea Toma +3
Recently developed plasmonic nanostructures are able to generate intense and localized magnetic hot spots in a large spectral range from the terahertz to the visible. However, a di…
Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Hyperbolic Metamaterial Nanoparticles
Joel Kuttruff, Alessio Gabbani, Gaia Petrucci +10
The optical properties of some nanomaterials can be controlled by an external magnetic field, providing active functionalities for a wide range of applications, from single-molecul…
How to puncture a biomembrane: elastic versus entropic rupture
Rosario Capozza, Luca Giomi, Carlo A. Gonano +1
A very common strategy to penetrate the cell membrane and access the internal compartment, consists of using sharp tips or nano needles. However recent experiments of cell penetrat…
SERS discrimination of single amino acid residue in single peptide by plasmonic nanocavities
Jian-An Huang, Mansoureh Z. Mousavi, Giorgia Giovannini +4
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a sensitive label-free optical method that can provide fingerprint Raman spectra of biomolecules such as DNA, amino acids and proteins…
Single-molecule DNA Bases Discrimination in Oligonucleotides by Controllable Trapping in Plasmonic Nanoholes
Jian-An Huang, Mansoureh Z. Mousavi, Yingqi Zhao +6
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensing of DNA sequences by plasmonic nanopores could pave a way to new generation single-molecule sequencing platforms. The SERS discrim…
Plasmon-Assisted Suppression of Surface Trap States and Enhanced Band-Edge Emission in a Bare CdTe Quantum Dot
Assegid M. Flatae, Francesco Tantussi, Gabriele C. Messina +2
Colloidal quantum dots have emerged as a versatile photoluminescent and optoelectronic material. Limitations like fluorescence intermittency, non-radiative Auger recombination and…
High sensitivity nanoporous gold metamaterials for plasmonic sensing
Denis Garoli, Eugenio Calandrini, Giorgia Giovannini +3
Surface Plasmon Resonance sensors are a well-established class of sensors which includes a very large variety of materials and detection schemes. However, the development of portab…
Cooperative energy transfer controls the spontaneous emission rate beyond field enhancement limits
Mohamed ElKabbash, Ermanno Miele, Ahmad K. Fumani +7
Quantum emitters located in proximity to a metal nanostructure individually transfer their energy via near-field excitation of surface plasmons. The energy transfer process increas…
Surface Thermal Gradients Activated by Enhanced Molecular Absorption in Mid-infrared Vertical Antenna Arrays
Andrea Mancini, Valeria Giliberti, Alessandro Alabastri +4
We investigate local heat generation by molecules at the apex of polymer-embedded vertical antennas excited at resonant mid-infrared wavelengths, exploiting the surface enhanced in…
Selective intracellular delivery and intracellular recordings combined on MEA biosensors
Andrea Cerea, Valeria Caprettini, Giulia Bruno +7
Biological studies on in vitro cell cultures are of fundamental importance to investigate cells response to external stimuli, such as new drugs for treatment of specific pathologie…
Controlled integration of MoS2 flakes on nanopores by means of electrophoretic deposition
Dario Mosconi, Andrea Jacassi, Giorgia Giovannini +7
We propose an easy and robust strategy for the versatile integration of 2D material flakes on plasmonic nanoholes by means of controlled deposition of MoS2 via electrophoretic proc…
Controlled Intracellular Delivery of Single Particles in Single Cells by 3D Hollow Nanoelectrodes
Jian-An Huang, Valeria Caprettini, Yingqi Zhao +6
We present an electrophoretic platform based on 3D hollow nanoelectrodes capable of controlling and quantifying the intracellular delivery of single nanoparticles in single selecte…
Nanostructured Hyperbolic Meta-Antennas Enable Arbitrary Control of Scattering vs Absorption
Nicolò Maccaferri, Yingqi Zhao, Marzia Iarossi +4
We show that meta-antennas made of a composite material displaying type II hyperbolic dispersion enable precise and controlled spectral separation of absorption and scattering proc…
Hybrid plasmonic nanostructures based on controlled integration of MoS2 flakes on metallic nanoholes
Denis Garoli, Dario Mosconi, Ermanno Miele +6
Here, we propose an easy and robust strategy for the versatile preparation of hybrid plasmonic nanopores by means of controlled deposition of single flakes of MoS2 directly on top…
MIM Structure for optical vortex beam generator at nanoscale level
Denis Garoli, Pierfrancesco Zilio, Yuri Gorodetski +2
Optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) can find tremendous applications in several fields. In order to apply these particular beams in photonic integrated devices in…
Boosting infrared energy transfer in 3D nanoporous gold antennas
D. Garoli, E. Calandrini, A. Bozzola +5
The applications of plasmonics to energy transfer from free-space radiation to molecules are currently limited to the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum due to the intr…
Self-assembly of micro-machining systems powered by Janus micro-motors
C. Maggi, J. Simmchen, F. Saglimbeni +5
Integration of active matter in larger micro-devices can provide an embedded source of propulsion and lead to self-actuated micromachining systems that do not rely on any external…
Beaming of helical light from plasmonic vortices via adiabatically tapered nanotip
Denis Garoli, Pierfrancesco Zilio, Yuri Gorodetski +2
We demonstrate the generation of far-field propagating optical beams with a desired orbital angular momentum by using a smooth optical mode transformation between a plasmonic vorte…
Nonlinear graphene metamaterial
Andrey E. Nikolaenko, Nikitas Papasimakis, Evangelos Atmatzakis +6
We demonstrate that the broadband nonlinear optical response of graphene can be resonantly enhanced by more than an order of magnitude through hybridization with a plasmonic metama…