Bimetallic nano-mushrooms with DNA-mediated interior nanogaps for high-efficiency SERS signal amplification

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 731-742

  Shen, Jianlei ^a   Su, Jing ^a   Yan, Juan ^a   Zhao, Bin ^a   Wang, Dongfang ^a   Wang, Siyi ^b   Li, Kun ^a   Liu, Mengmeng ^a   He, Yao ^b   Mathur, Sanjay ^c   Fan, Chunhai ^a   Song, Shiping ^a,c  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

biometallic nanostructure; gold nanoparticle; nano mushroom; nanogap; surface enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924767799     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0556-2     Document Type: Article

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