A plasmonic blood glucose monitor based on enzymatic etching of gold nanorods.

A simple colorimetric assay for blood glucose has been developed based on enzymatic engineering of gold nanorods by glucose oxidase (GOx)-mediated oxidative etching of gold nanorods.

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