Tunable SERS in gold nanorod dimers through strain control on an elastomeric substrate

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4488-4493

  Alexander, Kristen D ^a   Skinner, Kwan ^a   Zhang, Shunping ^b   Wei, Hong ^b   Lopez, Rene ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

AAO template; elastomer; electrodeposition; interparticle gap; Nanorod; SERS

Indexed keywords

AAO TEMPLATE; AU NANORODS; ELASTOMER FILMS; ELASTOMERIC SUBSTRATES; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; GOLD NANOROD; INTERPARTICLE DISTANCES; INTERPARTICLE GAP; NANOPARTICLE PAIRS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SERS; SERS ENHANCEMENT;

DIMERS; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRODEPOSITION; GOLD; NANORODS; PLASTICS; SILVER; SUBSTRATES;

GOLD COATINGS;

ELASTOMER; GOLD; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DIMERIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

DIMERIZATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTOMERS; GOLD; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 78449274441     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl1023172     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Kneipp, K.; Wang, Y.; Kneipp, H.; Perelman, L. T.; Itzkan, I.; Dasari, R.; Feld, M. S. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1997, 78, 1667-1670
2. Nie, S. M.; Emery, S. R. Science 1997, 275, 1102-1106
3. Xu, H. X.; Bjerneld, E. J.; Kall, M.; Borjesson, L. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1999, 83, 4357-4360
4. Jeanmaire, D. L.; Vanduyne, R. P. J. Electroanal. Chem. 1977, 84, 1-20
5. Krug, J. T.; Wang, G. D.; Emory, S. R.; Nie, S. M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 9208-9214
6. Hao, E.; Schatz, G. C. J. Chem. Phys. 2004, 120, 357-366
7. Kambhampati, P.; Child, C. M.; Foster, M. C.; Campion, A. J. Chem. Phys. 1998, 108, 5013-5026
8. Li, S.; Pedano, M. L.; Chang, S.-H.; Mirkin, C. A.; Schatz, G. C. Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 1722-7
9. Su, K. H.; Wei, Q. H.; Zhang, X.; Mock, J. J.; Smith, D. R.; Schultz, S. Nano Lett. 2003, 3, 1087-1090
10. Jiang, J.; Bosnick, K.; Maillard, M.; Brus, L. J. Phys. Chem. B 2003, 107, 9964-9972
11. Gunnarsson, L.; Bjerneld, E. J.; Xu, H.; Petronis, S.; Kasemo, B.; Kall, M. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2001, 78, 802-804
12. Jain, P. K.; El-Sayed, M. A. J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 4954-4960
13. Rechberger, W.; Hohenau, A.; Leitner, A.; Krenn, J. R.; Lamprecht, B.; Aussenegg, F. R. Opt. Commun. 2003, 220, 137-141
14. Xu, H. X.; Aizpurua, J.; Kall, M.; Apell, P. Phys. Rev. E 2000, 62, 4318-4324
15. Futamata, M.; Maruyama, Y.; Ishikawa, M. J. Phys. Chem. B 2003, 107, 7607-7617
16. Alexander, K. D.; Hampton, M. J.; Zhang, S. P.; Dhawan, A.; Xu, H. X.; Lopez, R. J. Raman Spectrosc. 2009, 40, 2171-2175
17. Pedano, M. L.; Li, S. Z.; Schatz, G. C.; Mirkin, C. A. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 78-82
18. Moskovits, M.; Jeong, D. H. Chem. Phys. Lett. 2004, 397, 91-95
19. Qin, L. D.; Zou, S. L.; Xue, C.; Atkinson, A.; Schatz, G. C.; Mirkin, C. A. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2006, 103, 13300-13303
20. Gopinath, A.; Boriskina, S. V.; Premasiri, W. R.; Ziegler, L.; Reinhard, B. M.; Dal Negro, L. Nano Lett. 2009, 9, 3922-3929
21. Lu, J.; Chamberlin, D.; Rider, D. A.; Liu, M. Z.; Manners, I.; Russell, T. P. Nanotechnology 2006, 17, 5792-5797
22. Wei, H.; Reyes-Coronado, A.; Nordlander, P.; Aizpurua, J.; Xu, H. ACS Nano 2010, 4, 2649-2654
23. Qin, L.; Banholzer, M. J.; Millstone, J. E.; Mirkin, C. A. Nano Lett. 2007, 7, 3849-3853
24. Johnson, B.; Christy, R. W. Phys. Rev. B 1972, 6, 4370-4379
25. Novotny, L.; Hecht, B. Principles of Nano-Optics; Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2006.
26. Payne, E. K.; Shuford, K. L.; Park, S.; Schatz, G. C.; Mirkin, C. A. J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 2150-2154
27. Hu, J. W.; Zhao, B.; Xu, W. Q.; Fan, Y. G.; Li, B.; Ozaki, Y. Langmuir 2002, 18, 6839-6844
28. Banholzer, M. J.; Li, S. Z.; Ketter, J. B.; Rozkiewicz, D. I.; Schatz, G. C.; Mirkin, C. A. J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 15729-15734
29. Sawai, Y.; Takimoto, B.; Nabika, H.; Ajito, K.; Murakoshi, K. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 1658-1662
30. Huang, F.; Baumberg, J. J. Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 1787-92