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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 8.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Mater. 2016 Aug 8;15(11):1203–1211. doi: 10.1038/nmat4720

Figure 1. Schematic representation of nanostructured porous substrates for in-situ plasmonic detection and imaging of Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.

Figure 1

a,b) Au@pNIPAM hydrogel with embedded Au nanorods (drawn in green). c,d) Mesostructured Au@TiO2 substrate with a mesoporous TiO2 thin film over a submonolayer of Au nanospheres. e,f) Micropatterned Au@SiO2 supercrystal array comprising Au nanorods organized in micron-sized pedestal-like structures coated with mesoporous silica. b, d, f represent cross-sectional views.