Gold nanoparticles with tipped surface structures as substrates for single-particle surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy: Concave nanocubes, nanotrisoctahedra, and nanostars

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 17255-17267

  Zhang, Qingfeng ^a   Large, Nicolas ^b   Wang, Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

concave nanocubes; finite difference time domain; nanostars; nanotrisoctahedra; noble metal nanoparticles; plasmon resonances; surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; LASER EXCITATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMONS; PRECIOUS METALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONCAVE NANOCUBES; NANOSTARS; NANOTRISOCTAHEDRA; PLASMON RESONANCES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

COLLOID; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84907896554     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am505245z     Document Type: Article

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