Spotlights on Recent JACS Publications

摘要

Interactions between metals and molecules are critical to determining the properties of materials, actions of catalysts, and behaviors of molecular electronic devices. To better understand metal-molecule interactions, researchers often use surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) because this spectro-scopic method is highly sensitive and works in the hard-to-analyze infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. However the geometry and electronic properties of substrates used to study metal-molecule interactions by SERS can be unpredictable and difficult to control.