New gold nanostructures for sensor applications: A review

Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 5169-5201

  Zhang, Yuanchao ^a,b   Chu, Wendy ^b   Foroushani, Alireza Dibaji ^b   Wang, Hongbin ^c   Li, Da ^b   Liu, Jingquan ^d   Barrow, Colin J ^b   Wang, Xin ^a   Yang, Wenrong ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c YUNNAN MINZU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gold nanoparticles (GNPs); Gold nanowires (GNWs); Nanoelectrodes; Surface enhanced optical spectroscopy; Surface enhanced raman spectroscopy (SERS)

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOWIRES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

GOLD NANOPARTICLES (GNPS); GOLD NANOWIRE; NANO-ELECTRODES; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

GOLD;

EID: 84904863833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma7075169     Document Type: Review

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