Monodisperse, micrometer-scale, highly crystalline, nanotextured Ag dendrites: rapid, large-scale, wet-chemical synthesis and their application as SERS substrates

Lei Wang; Hailong Li; Jingqi Tian; Xuping Sun

doi:10.1021/am100968j

Monodisperse, micrometer-scale, highly crystalline, nanotextured Ag dendrites: rapid, large-scale, wet-chemical synthesis and their application as SERS substrates

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2010 Nov;2(11):2987-91. doi: 10.1021/am100968j. Epub 2010 Oct 15.

Authors

Lei Wang¹, Hailong Li, Jingqi Tian, Xuping Sun

Affiliation

¹ State Key Lab of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, Jilin, China.

PMID: 20949938
DOI: 10.1021/am100968j

Abstract

In this letter, we report on our interesting finding that the direct mixing of aqueous AgNO(3) and NH(2)OH solutions at room temperature leads to rapid, high-yield production of monodisperse, micrometer-scale, highly crystalline, nanotextured Ag dendrites. The surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effect of these Ag dendrites was evaluated by using 4-aminothiophenol (p-ATP) as the Raman probe and the results demonstrate that they exhibit strong SERS effects.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't