An improved seed-mediated growth method to coat complete silver shells onto silica spheres for surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 387, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 17-22

  Liu, Tao ^a   Li, Dongsheng ^a   Yang, Deren ^a   Jiang, Minhua ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nanoparticle; Nanoshell; Silver; Surface plasmon; Surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLESS PLATING; INFRARED DEVICES; MONOLAYERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILICA; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SUBSTRATES;

AG PARTICLES; CORE-SHELL PARTICLE; GROWTH STEPS; ISOTROPIC GROWTH; NANOSHELLS; NEAR INFRARED REGION; NUCLEATION SITES; PH VALUE; POLYVINYL PYRROLIDONE; REACTION TEMPERATURE; SEED MEDIATED GROWTH; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SERS SUBSTRATE; SILICA SPHERE; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMONS;

SILVER;

POVIDONE; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 80052139481     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2011.07.030     Document Type: Article

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