Electrochemical fabrication of pyramid-shape silver microstructure as effective and reusable SERS substrate

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 274, Issue , 2018, Pages 242-249

  Chen, Shaoyun ^a   Liu, Ben ^a   Zhang, Xingying ^a   Mo, Yalun ^a   Chen, Fang ^a   Shi, Hong ^a   Zhang, Weihong ^b   Hu, Chenglong ^a   Chen, Jian ^b  

^a JIANGHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Pyramid shape; Recyclability; Reproducibility; SERS; Silver microstructures

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION; ESTERS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOSPHERES; RAMAN SCATTERING; REDUCTION; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SURFACE SCATTERING; TIN OXIDES;

PYRAMID-SHAPE; RECYCLABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SERS; SILVER MICROSTRUCTURES;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 85045752709     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2018.04.120     Document Type: Article

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