| Literature DB >> 23575811 |
Zhenglong Zhang1, Mengtao Sun, Panpan Ruan, Hairong Zheng, Hongxing Xu.
Abstract
Electric field gradient quadrupole Raman modes are observed in plasmon-driven chemical reactions investigated with high vacuum tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (HV-TERS). TER spectra reveal that 4-nitrobenzenethiol (4NBT) catalytically dimerizes to dimercaptoazobenzene (DMAB) under an HV-TERS setup. More importantly, we find that the electric field gradient leads to strong enhancement of the infrared (IR)-active modes of DMAB. The observation of both the Raman-active and IR-active modes of DMAB provides spectral evidence for ultrasensitive chemical analysis.Entities:
Year: 2013 PMID: 23575811 DOI: 10.1039/c3nr00966a
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nanoscale ISSN: 2040-3364 Impact factor: 7.790