Composite Sensor Particles for Tuned SERS Sensing: Microfluidic Synthesis, Properties and Applications

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 10742-10754

  Visaveliya, Nikunjkumar ^a   Lenke, Steffen ^a   Köhler, J Michael ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

composite microparticles; droplet formation; microfluidic; nanoparticles nucleation; photopolymerization and photoreduction; SERS sensing; size tuning

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; COPOLYMERS; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; PORE SIZE; RAMAN SCATTERING; SURFACE SCATTERING;

COMPOSITE MICROPARTICLES; DROPLET FORMATION; PHOTO-REDUCTION; SERS SENSING; SIZE TUNING;

SILVER;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOCONJUGATE; POLYMER; SILVER;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; LAB ON A CHIP; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCONJUGATES; POLYMERS; SILVER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84930647311     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00604     Document Type: Article

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