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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2007
Nancy J. Halas, Houston, TX (US);
Don H. Johnson, Houston, TX (US);
Sandra Whaley Bishnoi, Wilmette, IL (US);
Carly S. Levin, Houston, TX (US);
Christopher John Rozell, Houston, TX (US);
Bruce R. Johnson, Houston, TX (US);
Nancy J. Halas, Houston, TX (US);
Don H. Johnson, Houston, TX (US);
Sandra Whaley Bishnoi, Wilmette, IL (US);
Carly S. Levin, Houston, TX (US);
Christopher John Rozell, Houston, TX (US);
Bruce R. Johnson, Houston, TX (US);
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A composition comprising a nanoparticle and at least one adsorbate associated with the nanoparticle, wherein the adsorbate displays at least one chemically responsive optical property. A method comprising associating an adsorbate with a nanoparticle, wherein the nanoparticle comprises a shell surrounding a core material with a lower conductivity than the shell material and the adsorbate displays at least one chemically responsive optical property, and engineering the nanoparticle to enhance the optical property of the adsorbate. A method comprising determining an optical response of an adsorbate associated with a nanoparticle as a function of a chemical parameter, and parameterizing the optical response to produce a one-dimensional representation of at least a portion of a spectral window of the optical response in a high dimensional vector space.