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Raman Spectroscopy on Plasmonic Materials: Recent Advances and Applications in Molecular detection
Plasmonic Enhancement of the electric field is the basis of the Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering technique (SERS). This technique is based on the localization of light in the nanoscale occurring in plasmonic materials and provides the best conditions for molecular detection, even single-molecule detection. This can only be achieved by the use of spectroscopy in the nanoscale. The building of functional nanostructured devices to obtain sensitive and selective platforms, with specific applications in molecular detection, biodiagnosis and Cultural Heritage is presented. Plasmonic effects are highly activated in nanostructures substrates containing tips or in interparticle gaps. The nanofabrication of metal nanoparticles with special morphology, such as nanostars is presented here for the specific case of silver. The functionalization with bifunctional molecules gives rise to highly active gaps that can be employed in the molecular detection of pollutants. Another important application of these nanostructured platforms is the functionalization with biological molecules for bioanalytical applications and the detection of colorants with interest for the Cultural Heritage.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
Investigation of pigments in artworks by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)
Opening lecture of the SCORE Master degree course, Ravenna, October the 7th, 2015Peer Reviewe
AdS/QCD Modified Soft Wall Model and Light Meson Spectra
We analyze here the mass spectrum of light vector and scalar mesons applying
a novel approach where a modified soft wall model that includes a UV-cutoff at
a finite -position in the AdS space is used, thus introducing an extra
energy scale. For this model, we found that the masses for the scalar and
vector spectra are well fitted within for these states,
with non-linear trajectories given by two common parameters, the UV locus
and the quadratic dilaton profile slope . We also conclude that
in this model, the scalar resonance cannot be fitted
holographycally as a state since we cannot find a trajectory
that include this pole. This result is in agreement with the most recent
phenomenological and theoretical methods.Comment: 4 pages, no figures, conference pape
Recent Advances in Plasmonic-Enhanced Raman Scattering: Applications in Molecular Detection and Cultural Heritage
Università, Ca' Foscari, Venezia, 28 Mar 2019. -- Seminari
Discovery of the most isolated globular cluster in the local universe
We report the discovery of two new globular clusters in the remote halos of
M81 and M82 in the M81 Group based on Hubble Space Telescope archive images.
They are brighter than typical globular clusters (MV = -9.34 mag for GC-1 and
M_V = -10.51 mag for GC-2), and much larger than known globular clusters with
similar luminosity in the MilkyWay Galaxy and M81. Radial surface brightness
profiles for GC-1 and GC-2 do not show any features of tidal truncation in the
outer part. They are located much farther from both M81 and M82 in the sky,
compared with previously known star clusters in these galaxies. Color-magnitude
diagrams of resolved stars in each cluster show a well-defined red giant branch
(RGB), indicating that they are metal-poor and old. We derive a low metallicity
with [Fe/H] and an old age ~14 Gyr for GC-2 from the analysis of
the absorption lines in its spectrum in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in
comparison with the simple stellar population models. The I-band magnitude of
the tip of the RGB for GC-2 is 0.26 mag fainter than that for the halo stars in
the same field, showing that GC-2 is ~400 kpc behind the M81 halo along our
line of sight. The deprojected distance to GC-2 from M81 is much larger than
any other known globular clusters in the local universe. This shows that GC-2
is the most isolated globular cluster in the local universe.Comment: 6 pages with 5 figure
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