Silver nanoparticle-mesoporous oxide nanocomposite thin films: A platform for spatially homogeneous SERS-active substrates with enhanced stability

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 5263-5272

  Wolosiuk, Alejandro ^a   Tognalli, Nicolás G ^b,c   Martínez, Eduardo D ^a,d   Granada, Mara ^b   Fuertes, M Cecilia ^a,d   Troiani, Horacio ^b   Bilmes, Sara A ^e   Fainstein, Alejandro ^b   Soler Illia, Galo J A A ^a,e  

^a CENTRO ATÓMICO CONSTITUYENTES   (Argentina)

^b CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

^c Centro de Innovación Tecnológica Empresarial y Social CITES   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

mesoporous thin films; photodeposition; plasmonics; sensors; silver nanoparticles; surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)

Indexed keywords

MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SENSORS; SUBSTRATES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZIRCONIA;

MESOPOROUS THIN FILMS; PHOTO-DEPOSITION; PLASMONICS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

SILVER;

EID: 84898481092     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500631f     Document Type: Article

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