title: Electrodeposition of High Density Silver Nanosheets with Controllable Morphologies Served as Effective and Reproducible SERS Substrates.
abstract: Silver nanosheets with a nanogap smaller than 10 nm and high reproducibility were constructed through simple and environmentally friendly electrodeposition method on copper plate. The sizes of the nanogaps can be varied from around 7 to 150 nm by adjusting the deposition time and current density. The nanosheets with different nanogaps exhibited varied surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) properties due to electromagnetic mechanism (EM). The optimized high density silver nanosheets with a nanogap smaller than 10 nm showed effective SERS ability with an enhanced factor as high as 2.0 × 10(5). Furthermore, the formation mechanism of the nanosheets during the electrodeposition process has been investigated by discussing the influence of boric acid and current density. This method has proved to be applicable on different metal substrates, which exhibits the potential to be widely used in different fields.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , No. 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Yiqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , No. 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Yunwen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , No. 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , No. 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Jiaming
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , No. 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Ming
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authors.lastname: Li