Dimers of silver nanospheres: Facile synthesis and their use as hot spots for surface-enhanced raman scattering

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 485-490

  Li, Weiyang ^a   Camargo, Pedro H C ^a   Lu, Xianmao ^a   Xia, Younan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL STABILITIES; FACILE SYNTHESIS; GAP REGIONS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HOT SPOTS; ONE STEPS; ONE-POT METHODS; OXIDATIVE ETCHINGS; POLYOL SYNTHESIS; SEM IMAGING; SERS ENHANCEMENTS; SMALL SIZES; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERINGS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIMERS; NANOSPHERES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACES;

SILVER;

NANOMATERIAL; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 61649096683     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl803621x     Document Type: Article

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