title: Kinked gold nanowires and their SPR/SERS properties.
abstract: We report a facile chemical synthesis of kinked gold nanowires through anisotropic growth along the (111) direction with a high density of twin-plane defects. The resulting kinked gold nanowires exhibited pronounced near-IR absorption and were demonstrated as good SERS substrates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and the State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Xun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Dingsheng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yadong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D053770:Nanowires / Q000737:chemistry*; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D006046:Gold