Rapid Synthesis of Monodisperse Au Nanospheres through a Laser Irradiation-Induced Shape Conversion, Self-Assembly and Their Electromagnetic Coupling SERS Enhancement

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Dilong ^a,b   Li, Cuncheng ^c   Zhou, Fei ^a   Zhang, Tao ^c   Zhang, Honghua ^a,b   Li, Xinyang ^a   Duan, Guotao ^a   Cai, Weiping ^a   Li, Yue ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering   (China)

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EID: 84928974122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07686     Document Type: Article

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