Silver nanorods wrapped with ultrathin Al2O3layers exhibiting excellent sers sensitivity and outstanding sers stability

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ma, Lingwei ^a   Huang, Yu ^a   Hou, Mengjing ^a   Xie, Zheng ^a   Zhang, Zhengjun ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84939178974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12890     Document Type: Article

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