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PP performed the SEM Phosphatidylinositol diacylglycerol-lyase investigations. All authors discussed the data and prepared the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.”
“Background Nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA) is one of the smartest materials in which scientists have centered their research with considerable interest in recent years [1, 2] due to their physicochemical properties like thermal stability, environmental toughness, and biocompatibility. Alumina has been studied for decades [3]. The fabrication technology permits to obtain highly ordered and customized porous nanostructures that makes NAA very attractive for different applications such as nanomaterial synthesis [4, 5], photonics [6], or sensors [7–9]. In particular, NAA has demonstrated its sensing capabilities: a great wealth of work has been carried out with this material in biotechnology areas [10], and it presents reliable possibilities of working as portable chemical and biochemical sensors [11], as well as label-free biosensors [12]. Furthermore, if the optical waveguide properties of NAA are exploited, much higher sensitivities than conventional surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors [2, 13, 14] can be achieved. Sensors based on alumina improve their sensitivity by the measurement of the oscillations in the reflectance spectrum produced by the Fabry-Pérot (F-P) interferences in a NAA thin film [15, 16].