Highly sensitive, uniform, and reproducible surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy from hollow Au-Ag alloy nanourchins.

Liu, Zhen; Yang, Zhongbo; Peng, Bo; Cao, Cuong; Zhang, Chao; You, Hongjun; Xiong, Qihua; Li, Zhiyuan et al. · Adv Mater · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A hierarchical nanoparticle strategy to simultaneously gain super Raman signal amplification, high uniformity, and reproducibility is presented. Using hollow Au-Ag alloy nanourchins, an ultrahigh sensitivity, e.g., down to 1 fM concentrations for DEHP molecule is obtained. A small standard deviation of <10% is achieved by simply dropping and evaporating sub-100 nm nanourchins onto a substrate.

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