ABSTRACT
In recent years, R&D activities of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) have been mainly directed toward biosensing applications, which include drug screening and clinical studies, food and environmental monitoring, and cell membrane mimicry. This is because of the potential of such sensors for applications in the health-related market. In the past 10 years, increasing number of companies have been offering commercial SPR biosensor systems targeting at customers conducting basic research in the field of life sciences. In fact, SPR biosensors have already become an important tool for characterizing and quantifying biomolecular interactions in many laboratories. Recent applications of the SPR-sensing technique have been expanding into the fields of environmental pollution, chemistry, theoretical physics, and experimental optics.
