| Literature DB >> 18729527 |
Lakshminarayana Polavarapu1, Qing-Hua Xu.
Abstract
Gold nanochains were prepared by the assembly of citrate-stabilized gold nanospheres induced by cationic conjugated polymers. This assembly method was rapid, and the assembled product was very stable. A longitudinal plasmon resonance band was formed as a result of the coupling of gold nanoparticles and can be tuned from visible to near-infrared by adjusting the polymer/Au molar ratio. The gold nanochains were used as a SERS substrate and gave an enhancement factor of 8.4 x 10 (9), which is approximately 400 times larger than that on the isolated gold nanosphere substrate. The giant SERS enhancement is ascribed to the large electromagnetic fields of coupled gold nanoparticles.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18729527 DOI: 10.1021/la802319c
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Langmuir ISSN: 0743-7463 Impact factor: 3.882