Measuring Ensemble-Averaged Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering in the Hotspots of Colloidal Nanoparticle Dimers and Trimers

Gang Chen, Yong Wang, Miaoxin Yang, Jun Xu, Sook Jin Goh, Ming Pan, Hongyu Chen

Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2010 · 409 citations · 24 references

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Abstract

We report ensemble-averaged measurements of colloidal hotspots enabled by the synthesis of highly uniform dimers and trimers of Au@Ag nanoparticles and the quantification of the relative concentrations of the nanoclusters.

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