Ultrastable, Uniform, Reproducible, and Highly Sensitive Bimetallic Nanoparticles as Reliable Large Scale SERS Substrates

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 46, 2015, Pages 26091-26100

  Khaywah, Mohammad Y ^a,b   Jradi, Safi ^a   Louarn, Guy ^c   Lacroute, Yvon ^d   Toufaily, Joumana ^b   Hamieh, Tayssir ^b   Adam, Pierre M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c INSTITUT DES MATÉRIAUX JEAN ROUXEL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GOLD; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SILVER;

BIMETALLIC NANOPARTICLES; BIMETALLIC SUBSTRATES; CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NON-RESONANT MOLECULES; SERS-ACTIVE SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84947968019     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b04914     Document Type: Article

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