Critical role of adsorption equilibria on the determination of surface-enhanced raman enhancement

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 584-593

  Tripathi, Ashish ^a   Emmons, Erik D ^a   Fountain, Augustus W ^b   Guicheteau, Jason A ^b   Moskovits, Martin ^c   Christesen, Steven D ^b  

^a FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^b EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

binding energy; enhancement factor; equilibrium constant; Langmuir isotherm; SERS

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; FREE ENERGY; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; ISOTHERMS; PRECIOUS METALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE REACTIONS;

ADSORPTION EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; LANGMUIR ISOTHERM; REACTION EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; SERS; SERS ENHANCEMENT FACTORS; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

BINDING ENERGY;

EID: 84921759334     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5058936     Document Type: Article

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