Raman studies of rhodamine 6G and crystal violet sub-monolayers on electrochemically roughened silver substrates: Do dye molecules adsorb preferentially on highly SERS-active sites?
Raman studies of rhodamine 6G and crystal violet sub-monolayers on electrochemically roughened silver substrates: Do dye molecules adsorb preferentially on highly SERS-active sites?
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DOI:
10.1016/j.cplett.2005.08.075
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发表时间:
2005-10-14
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2.8
通讯作者:
Kudelski, A
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作者:
Kudelski, A
The enhancement factors in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) are significantly different for molecules adsorbed on different sites. We show that on electrochemically roughened silver substrates dye molecules preferentially adsorb at highly SERS-active sites (probably slits between metal nanoparticles). Our results suggest that even such large molecules as rhodamine 6G and crystal violet can locate themselves into highly SERS-active sites not only during rearrangement of the metal nanoparticles (this mechanism is likely for metallic sots) but can also diffuse into already existing highly SERS-active sites. The number of such sites is small, however, they provide very high surface enhancement. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.