title: Amplification of chiroptical activity of chiral biomolecules by surface plasmons.
abstract: Chiral molecules are shown to induce circular dichroism (CD) at surface plasmon resonances of gold nanostructures when in proximity to the metal surface without direct bonding to the metal. By changing the molecule-Au separation, we were able to learn about the mechanism of plasmonic CD induction for such nanostructures. It was found that even two monolayers of chiral molecules can induce observable plasmonic CD, while without the presence of the plasmonic nanostructures their own CD signal is unmeasurable. Hence, plasmonic arrays could offer a route to enhanced sensitivity for chirality detection.
authors: School of Chemistry, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
authors: Ben M
authors: BM
authors: Maoz
authors: Yulia
authors: Y
authors: Chaikin
authors: Alexander B
authors: AB
authors: Tesler
authors: Omri
authors: O
authors: Bar Elli
authors: Zhiyuan
authors: Z
authors: Fan
authors: Alexander O
authors: AO
authors: Govorov
authors: Gil
authors: G
authors: Markovich
mesh_terms: D002942:Circular Dichroism; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance