Silver nanoparticles-based localized surface plasmon resonance biosensor for Escherichia coli detection.

Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria with varying solution concentrations have been successfully detected using silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs)-based localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) biosensors. The Ag NPs were effectively synthesized by a chemical method using trisodium citrate with L-Histidine (L-His) and deposited on the surface of Au thin film-coated half-cylinder BK-7 prisms.

Grazing-incidence synchrotron-radiation ⁵⁷Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy using a nuclear Bragg monochromator and its application to the study of magnetic thin films.

Energy-domain grazing-incidence (57)Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy (E-GIMS) with synchrotron radiation (SR) has been developed to study surface and interface structures of thin films. Highly brilliant (57)Fe-Mössbauer radiation, filtered from SR by a (57)FeBO(3) single-crystal nuclear Bragg monochromator, allows conventional Mössbauer spectroscopy to be performed for dilute (57)Fe in a mirror-like film in any bunch-mode operation of SR. A theoretical and experimental study of the specular reflections from isotope-enriched ((57)Fe: 95%) and natural-abundance ((57)Fe: ∼2%) iron thin films has been carried out to clarify the basic features of the coherent interference between electronic and nuclear resonant scattering of (57)Fe-Mössbauer radiation in thin films.