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Surface Plasmon Resonance Microscopy
Surface plasmon resonance microscopy (SPRM), also called surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRI), is a label free analytical tool that combines the surface plasmon resonance of metallic surfaces with imaging of the metallic surface. The heterogeneity of the refractive index of the metallic surface imparts high contrast images, caused by the shift in the resonance angle. SPRM can achieve a sub-nanometer thickness sensitivity and lateral resolution achieves values of micrometer scale. SPRM is used to characterize surfaces such as self-assembled monolayers, multilayer films, metal nanoparticles, oligonucleotide arrays, and binding and reduction reactions. Surface plasmon polaritons are surface electromagnetic waves coupled to oscillating free electrons of a metallic surface that propagate along a metal/dielectric interface. Since polaritons are highly sensitive to small changes in the refractive index of the metallic material, it can be used as a biosensing tool that does not require ...
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Surface Plasmon Resonance
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is the resonant oscillation of conduction electrons at the interface between negative and positive permittivity material in a particle stimulated by incident light. SPR is the basis of many standard tools for measuring adsorption of material onto planar metal (typically gold or silver) surfaces or onto the surface of metal nanoparticles. It is the fundamental principle behind many color-based biosensor applications and lab-on-a-chip sensors. It should be stressed that SPR is not a resonance on the planar surface and it is a polariton or surface-wave like phenomenon. Explanation The surface plasmon polariton is a non-radiative electromagnetic surface wave that propagates in a direction parallel to the negative permittivity/dielectric material interface. Since the wave is on the boundary of the conductor and the external medium (air, water or vacuum for example), these oscillations are very sensitive to any change of this boundary, such as the adso ...
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Surface Plasmon Excitation By Light Diffraction
A surface, as the term is most generally used, is the outermost or uppermost layer of a physical object or space. It is the portion or region of the object that can first be perceived by an observer using the senses of sight and touch, and is the portion with which other materials first interact. The surface of an object is more than "a mere geometric solid", but is "filled with, spread over by, or suffused with perceivable qualities such as color and warmth". The concept of surface has been abstracted and formalized in mathematics, specifically in geometry. Depending on the properties on which the emphasis is given, there are several non equivalent such formalizations, that are all called ''surface'', sometimes with some qualifier, such as algebraic surface, smooth surface or fractal surface. The concept of surface and its mathematical abstraction are both widely used in physics, engineering, computer graphics, and many other disciplines, primarily in representing the surfaces ...
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SPRI Set-up
The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide. It is a sub-department of the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge, located on Lensfield Road in the south of Cambridge. SPRI was founded by Frank Debenham in 1920 as the national memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his companions, who died on their return journey from the South Pole in 1912. It investigates issues relevant to the Arctic and Antarctic in the environmental sciences, social sciences and humanities. The institute is home the Polar Museum and has some 60 personnel, consisting of academic, library and support staff plus postgraduate students, associates and fellows attached to research programmes. The institute also hosts the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Research SPRI has several research groups. Notable researchers that have been based at the institute include Julian Dowdeswell, British diplomat Bryan Robert ...
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Mineralization – Occurrence And Detection
Mineralization may refer to: * Mineralization (biology), when an inorganic substance precipitates in an organic matrix ** Biomineralization, a form of mineralization ** Mineralization of bone, an example of mineralization ** Mineralized tissues are tissues that have undergone mineralization * Mineralization (geology), the hydrothermal deposition of economically important metals in the formation of ore bodies or lodes * Mineralization (soil science), the release of plant-available compounds such as ammonium during decomposition See also *Remineralization (other) Remineralisation (UK spelling; US Remineralization) is the transformation of organic molecules to inorganic forms. Remineralisation may also refer to: * John D. Hamaker#Remineralization benefits * Rockdust, aka soil remineralization, non-synth ... * De- and Remineralization of teeth as an ongoing process {{disambiguation ...
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Representation Of Aptamer (APT) Binding With Thrombin And SPRI Detection
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Flow Chart Of SPR-MALDI-MS And SPR-MALDI-MS-MS Coupling
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Pattern Fabrication And SPR Images
A pattern is a regularity in the world, in human-made design, or in abstract ideas. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner. A geometric pattern is a kind of pattern formed of geometric shapes and typically repeated like a wallpaper design. Any of the senses may directly observe patterns. Conversely, abstract patterns in science, mathematics, or language may be observable only by analysis. Direct observation in practice means seeing visual patterns, which are widespread in nature and in art. Visual patterns in nature are often chaotic, rarely exactly repeating, and often involve fractals. Natural patterns include spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tilings, cracks, and those created by symmetries of rotation and reflection. Patterns have an underlying mathematical structure; indeed, mathematics can be seen as the search for regularities, and the output of any function is a mathematical pattern. Similarly in the sciences, theories explain and predict regu ...
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SPR Difference Images Of A Four-component DNA Array
SPR can refer to: Media and entertainment *''Self-Publishing Review'', an online book review magazine for independent authors Businesses and organizations *''Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano'', a Mexican public broadcaster *Society for Psychical Research, founded in 1882 * Software Productivity Research, a software benchmarking company *Former São Paulo Railway Company, Brazil *Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita, Kansas, US, NYSE symbol *South Persia Rifles, British-commanded unit 1916-1921 *''Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya Malaysia'' (Election Commission of Malaysia) Places *San Pedro Airport, Belize. IATA code Science and technology Computer science * Subtree pruning and regrafting, a method in computational phylogenetics *Single particle reconstruction (or analysis), image processing techniques for transmission electron microscopy Biology and medicine *SPR, a human gene which codes for the enzyme sepiapterin reductase *Specialist registrar (SpR), physician posit ...
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Structure Of The G–G Mismatch
A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such as biological organisms, minerals and chemicals. Abstract structures include data structures in computer science and musical form. Types of structure include a hierarchy (a cascade of one-to-many relationships), a network featuring many-to-many links, or a lattice featuring connections between components that are neighbors in space. Load-bearing Buildings, aircraft, skeletons, anthills, beaver dams, bridges and salt domes are all examples of load-bearing structures. The results of construction are divided into buildings and non-building structures, and make up the infrastructure of a human society. Built structures are broadly divided by their varying design approaches and standards, into categories including building structures, archi ...
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Schematic Illustration Of The Fabrication Of A Micro Patterned Membrane On A Gold Substrate And SPRM Image
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