Sniffing a single molecule through SERS using Aucore-Ag shell bimetallic nanoparticles

Current Science

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 556-559

  Mandal, Madhuri ^a   Kundu, Subrata ^a   Ghosh, Sujit Kumar ^a   Jana, Nikhil Ranjan ^b   Panigrahi, Mruganka ^a   Pal, Tarasankar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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