Au nanoparticle-based sensor for apomorphine detection in plasma

• Chiara Zanchi,
• Andrea Lucotti,
• Matteo Tommasini,
• Sebastiano Trusso,
• Ugo de Grazia,
• Emilio Ciusani and
• Paolo M. Ossi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2224–2232, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.228

• unfiltered human blood plasma is presented and discussed. Keywords: apomorphine; Au NPs; nano-roughened films; pulsed laser deposition; self-assembled films; SERS; Introduction In recent years, the analytical applications of Raman spectroscopy and its enhanced variant employing plasmonic media, the surface