Zinc oxide nanotubes decorated with silver nanoparticles as an ultrasensitive substrate for surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 179, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 315-321

  Gao, Ming ^a,b,c   Xing, Guozhong ^d   Yang, Jinghai ^a   Yang, Lili ^a   Zhang, Yongjun ^a   Liu, Huilian ^a   Fan, Hougang ^a   Sui, Yingrui ^a   Feng, Bo ^a,b,c   Sun, Yunfei ^a,b,c   Zhang, Zhiqiang ^a   Liu, Shanshan ^a   Li, Sean ^d   Song, Hang ^b  

^a JILIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

4 mercaptopyridine (4 MPY); Surface plasmon coupling; Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS); ZnO Ag nanotubes array

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867846857     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-012-0898-y     Document Type: Article

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