Scheme 1

Bottom-up nano-patterning of a plasmonic nanofibre sensor of 1 µm tip diameter. A tapered glass fibre was initially templated with PS-b-P4VP diblock copolymer before incubation on an AgNP colloid (A), forming a dense AgNP array on the nanofibre sensor (B, C). Scale bars for panels (B, C) are 5 µm and 2 µm, respectively. Panel (A) was created in BioRender with permission.