Contributed talks

Daniel Aili, Imperial College, UK

Polypeptide-Guided Nanoparticle Assembly for Colorimetric Biosensing

Hatice Altug, Boston University, USA

A New Plasmonic Tool for Bimolecular Analysis: Collectively Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy (CEIRAS)

Jae-Woo Choi, EPFL, Switzerland

Chemical Gradient Generation with Optofluidic Pumps using a Plasmonic Nanoparticle Carpet

Alasdair Clark, University of Glasgow, UK

Nano Split-Ring Resonators for Enhanced Optical Applications

Francesco De Angelis, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

3D Adiabatic Compression of Plasmon Polariton for Nanomapping Below 10 nm Resolution

Irme Dekany, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Plasmonic Properties of Cysteine Functionalized Silver-Gold Bimetallic Nanoparticles

Wolfgang Fritzsche, University of Jena, Germany

Biofunctionalized Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Sensing and Manipulation on a Single Particle Level: Potential for Highly Paralleled and Integrated Bioanalytics

Madhavi Krishnan, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Geometry-Induced Trapping, Levitation and Assembly of Nanometric Objects

Lucio Isa, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Nanoparticle Self-Assembly at Liquid-liquid Interfaces (SALI) as a Fabrication
Tool for Biosensing

Christoph Langhammer, Chalmers University, Sweden

Indirect Nanoplasmonic Sensing: Ultrasensitive Optical Probes for Nanomaterials Science and Catalysis

Marcus Schmelzeisen, Max Planck Institute Mainz, Germany

Fluorescence Enhancement from Individual Plasmonic Gap Resonances

Carsten Sönnichsen, University of Mainz, Germany

The Optimal Aspect Ratio of Gold Nanorods for Plasmonic Bio-Sensing

Vasily Temnov, MIT, USA

Plasmon Wave Vector Sensing with Tilted Slit-Groove Interferometers

Andreas Unger, Max Planck Institute Mainz, Germany

Label-Free Single Molecule Sensing with Localized Plasmon Resonances: Theoretical Description, Absolute Bounds on the Sensitivity and Experimental Verification

Kislon Voitchovsky, MIT, USA

Tuning the Liquid/Nanoparticles Interfacial Energy through Molecular Structuring of the Ligand Coating