Optofluidic plasmonics could detect biochemical weapons
Optofluidic plasmonics, a new method of biological detection and analysis, may have positive implications for detecting biochemical weapons as well as researching new drugs and finding cancer earlier.
November 17, 2008 Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have demonstrated experimentally and theoretically that the surface plasmon resonances of metal nanoparticles in a periodic array can have considerably narrower spectral widths than those of isolated metal nanoparticles.