Why Do Analytical Chemists Like Nanotechnology?
Gilbert E. Pacey, Justin A. Heuser, Sean D. Puckett, Anita R. Taulbee, and Wolfgang U. Spendel. Miami University, Oxford, OH Analytical chemists do like nanotechnology! The nanotechnology researchers have produced numerous new nanomaterials and identified new phenomena that can be applied to sensing devices. One of the interesting aspects of nanotechnology is that nanodomain-sized materials produce a variety of new phenomena to use in detection schemes. For example, phenomena such as surface plasmon resonance have been extensively applied to sensing systems. In some cases as nanomagnetism, micron-sized materials produce little, if any, magnetic properties, but that same material sized in the nanodomain produces magnetic effects. In addition, new nanomaterials like quantum dots have provided analytical chemists and biochemists with a new set of non-bleaching fluorescent dyes. Layer-by-layer multilayer construction techniques produce 20 nanometer-thick materials that facilitate new sensi
