Growth of branched gold nanoparticles on solid surfaces and their use as surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates

N. I. Evcimen, Süleyman Coşkun, Duygu Kozanoglu, Gülay Ertaş, Hüsnü Emrah Ünalan, Emren Nalbant Esentürk

RSC Advances · 2015 · 11 citations · 48 references

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Branched gold nanoparticles were synthesized directly on solid surfaces (silicon, glass, ITO) in high yield. They revealed strong SERS activity for the detection of R6G with an enhancement factor estimated as greater than 8 orders of magnitude.

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