Gold Nanowire Forests for SERS Detection

摘要

AbstractInvited for this months cover is the group of Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzán, the Bionanoplasmonics Laboratory at CIC biomaGUNE, Spain. The cover picture shows a schematic view of a “forest” of gold nanowires vertically grown on a solid support. Standard Raman-active molecules and their corresponding surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra are depicted in between the nanowires. The manuscript by La Porta et al. describes the controlled growth of such gold nanowires and their corresponding plasmonic properties. For more details, see the Full Paper on p. 146 ff.