title: Controlled side-by-side assembly of gold nanorods and dye molecules into polymer-wrapped SERRS-active clusters.
abstract: The controlled side-by-side assembly of gold nanorods in solution together with Raman reporter dye molecules to create small SERRS-active clusters stabilised by a surrounding polymer layer is demonstrated. This promising new class of nanotags offers several advantages over spherical nanoparticles for bioimaging and is of potential importance for a wide range of plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies and can also serve as building blocks for more complex solution-phase nanostructures.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Molecular Nanometrology, WestCHEM, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK G1 1XL.
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McLintock
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.forename: Alastair W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Wark
mesh_terms: D004396:Coloring Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D043942:Nanotubes / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents; D011108:Polymers; D006046:Gold