Large-scale homogeneously distributed Ag-NPs with sub-10nm gaps assembled on a two-layered honeycomb-like TiO 2 film as sensitive and reproducible SERS substrates

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 38, 2012, Pages

  Hu, Xiaoye ^a   Meng, Guowen ^a,b   Huang, Qing ^c   Xu, Wei ^a   Han, Fangming ^a   Sun, Kexi ^a   Xu, Qiaoling ^a   Wang, Zhaoming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG NANOPARTICLE; ANALYTE MOLECULES; ANODIZATIONS; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HONEYCOMBLIKE STRUCTURES; HOT SPOT; NANOCELLS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); REPRODUCIBILITIES; SERS SUBSTRATE; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS); TI FOIL; TIO; TRACE DETECTION; UPPER LAYER; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; NANOPORES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SILVER; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRACE ANALYSIS;

SUBSTRATES;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METAL NANOPARTICLES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILVER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TITANIUM;

EID: 84866084894     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/38/385705     Document Type: Article

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