Hierarchical porous plasmonic metamaterials for reproducible ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.

Zhang, Xinyi; Zheng, Yuanhui; Liu, Xin; Lu, Wei; Dai, Jiyan; Lei, Dang Yuan; MacFarlane, Douglas R · Adv Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Hierarchical porous plasmonic metamaterials consisting of periodic nanoholes with tunable diameter and uniformly distributed mesopores over the bulk are developed as a new class of 3D surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates. This multiscale architecture not only facilitates efficient cascaded electromagnetic enhancement but also provides an enormous number of Raman-active binding sites, exhibiting excellent reproducibility and ultrasensitive detection of aromatic molecules down to 10(-13) M.

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