Ultrasensitive molecular sensor using N-doped graphene through enhanced Raman scattering

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Feng, Simin ^a   Cristina dos Santos, Maria ^b   Carvalho, Bruno R ^a,c   Lv, Ruitao ^d   Li, Qing ^e   Fujisawa, Kazunori ^a   Elías, Ana Laura ^a   Lei, Yu ^a   Perea López, Nestor ^a   Endo, Morinobu ^f   Pan, Minghu ^g   Pimenta, Marcos A ^c   Terrones, Mauricio ^a,f  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHARGE TRANSFER; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYES; GRAPHENE; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; NITROGEN; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

DISPERSION-CORRECTED DENSITY FUNCTIONAL; ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING; FLUORESCENT MOLECULES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; MOLECULAR SENSING; MOLECULAR SENSORS; NITROGEN DOPED GRAPHENE;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

CRYSTAL VIOLET; GRAPHITE; METHYLENE BLUE; NITROGEN; RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE B;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

GENTIAN VIOLET; GRAPHITE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; METHYLENE BLUE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NITROGEN; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM THEORY; RHODAMINES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84992485394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600322     Document Type: Article

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