Narasimhan, Vinayak and Siddique, Radwanul Hasan and Hoffmann, Magnus and Kumar, Shailabh and Choo, Hyuck (2019) Enhanced broadband fluorescence detection of nucleic acids using multipolar gap-plasmons on biomimetic Au metasurfaces. Nanoscale, 11 (29). pp. 13750-13757. ISSN 2040-3364. doi:10.1039/c9nr03178b. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190529-154819907
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Abstract
Recent studies on metal–insulator–metal-based plasmonic antennas have shown that emitters could couple with higher-order gap-plasmon modes in sub-10-nm gaps to overcome quenching. However, these gaps are often physically inaccessible for functionalization and are not scalably manufacturable. Here, using a simple biomimetic batch-fabrication, a plasmonic metasurface is created consisting of closely-coupled nanodisks and nanoholes in a metal–insulator–metal arrangement. The quadrupolar mode of this system exhibits strong broadband resonance in the visible-near-infrared regime with minimal absorptive losses and effectively supresses quenching, making it highly suitable for broadband plasmon-enhanced fluorescence. Functionalizing the accessible insulator nanogap, analytes are selectively immobilized onto the plasmonic hotspot enabling highly-localized detection. Sensing the streptavidin–biotin complex, a 91-, 288-, 403- and 501-fold fluorescence enhancement is observed for Alexa Fluor 555, 647, 750 and 790, respectively. Finally, the detection of single-stranded DNA (gag, CD4 and CCR5) analogues of genes studied in the pathogenesis of HIV-1 between 10 pM–10 μM concentrations and then CD4 mRNA in the lysate of transiently-transfected cells with a 5.4-fold increase in fluorescence intensity relative to an untransfected control is demonstrated. This outcome promises the use of biomimetic Au metasurfaces as platforms for robust detection of low-abundance nucleic acids.
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Additional Information: | © 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. The article was received on 13 Apr 2019, accepted on 18 May 2019 and first published on 20 May 2019. The authors acknowledge the financial support provided by the SAMSUNG Global Research Outreach (GRO) program. The authors are also thankful for the support and resources provided by the Kavli Nanoscience Institute and the Beckman Institute Biological Imaging Facility at Caltech. There are no conflicts to declare. | ||||||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1039/c9nr03178b | ||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||||
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