Hunting for the active sites of surface-enhanced Raman scattering: A new strategy based on single silver particles

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 632-638

  Tong, Xiao ^a,b   Qi, Ye ^a   Li, Sun ^a  

^a University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY GAP; LITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS);

SILVER;

EID: 0030735305     PISSN: 10895647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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