Asymmetric gold nanodimer arrays: electrostatic self-assembly and SERS activity

Yuanhui Zheng, Lorenzo Rosa, Thibaut Thai, Soon Hock Ng, Daniel E. Gómez, Hiroyuki Ohshima

Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 2014 · 69 citations · 49 references

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A simple, versatile, high-throughput nanofabrication method based on electrostatic self-assembly is developed for the large-scale generation of well-defined asymmetric plasmonic dimers, enabling the study of interparticle plasmon coupling and the "hot-spot" phenomenon in SERS.

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