A facile and general route to synthesize silica-coated SERS tags with the enhanced signal intensity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Youlin ^a   Li, Xiaokun ^a   Xue, Bin ^a   Kong, Xianggui ^a   Liu, Xiaomin ^a   Tu, Langping ^a   Chang, Yulei ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

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EID: 84943641174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14934     Document Type: Article

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