title: Gold Micro-Flowers: One-Step Fabrication of Efficient, Highly Reproducible Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Platform.
abstract: We present a new method enabling simultaneous synthesis and deposition of gold micro-flowers (AuMFs) on solid substrates in a one-pot process that uses two reagents, auric acid and hydroxylamine hydrochloride, in aqueous reaction mixture. The AuMFs deposited onto the substrate form mechanically stable gold layer of expanded nanostructured surface. The morphology of the AuMFs depends on and can be controlled by the composition of the reaction solution as well as by the reaction time. The nanostructured metallic layers obtained with our method are employed as efficient platforms for chemical and biological sensing based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). SERS spectra recorded by such platforms for p-mercaptobenzoic acid and phage lambda exhibit enhancement factors above 10(6) and excellent reproducibility.
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authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fialkowski
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