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To examine the role of the LDOS modification near a metal nanobody and to look for a rationale for single molecule detection by means of SERS, Raman scattering cross-sections have been calculated for a hypothetical molecule with polarizability 10 placed in a close vicinity near a silver prolate spheroid with the length of 80 nm and diameter of 50 nm and near a silver spherical particle with the same volume. Polarization of incident light has been chosen so as the electric field vector is parallel to the axis connecting a molecule and the center of the silver particle. Maximal enhancement has been found to occur for molecule dipole moment oriented along electric field vector of Incident light. The position of maximal values of Raman cross-section is approximately by the position of maximal absolute value of nanoparticle s polarizability. For selected silver nanoparticles it corresponds to 83.5 nm and 347.8 nm for spheroid, and 354.9 nm for sphere. To account for local incident field enhancement factor the approach described by M. Stockman in [4] has been applied. To account for the local density of states enhancement factor, the approach used for calculation of a radiative decay rate of an excited atom near a metal body [9] was used. We... 

A. Slistan-Grijalva, R. Herrera-Urbina, J. F. Rivas-Silva, M. Avalos-Borja, F. F. Castil-lo-Barraza, A. Posada-Amaiillas Classical Theoretical Characterization of the Surface Plasmon Absorption Band for Silver Spherical Nanoparticles Suspended in Water and Ethylene Glycol, Physica, E. 2005, v. 27,104-112. 

Stassi, S., et al, 2014. Nanosized gold and silver spherical, spiky, and multi-branched particles. Handbook of Nanomaterials Properties. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 179-212. 

However, it is important to remark that for more realistic cases, this overlap between absorption and enhancement is lost, and for complex shaped particles for particles arrays and even for spherical particles outside the quasi-static limit, the maximum absorption frequency of the plasmon and the maximum available total field may appear at quite different frequencies. This is shown for example in Fig. 5.3 for a silver spherical particles. 

The reaction vessel is situated inside a metal of high themial conductivity having a cylindrical, spherical, or other shape which serves as the calorimetric medium. Silver is the most suitable material because of its high themial conductivity, but copper is most frequently used. 

CuNPs) in Fig. 7 shows the monodisperse and uniformly distributed spherical particles of 10+5 nm diameter. The solution containing nanoparticles of silver was found to be transparent and stable for 6 months with no significant change in the surface plasmon and average particle size. However, in the absence of starch, the nanoparticles formed were observed to be immediately aggregated into black precipitate. The hydroxyl groups of the starch polymer act as passivation contacts for the stabilization of the metallic nanoparticles in the aqueous solution. The method can be extended for synthesis of various other metallic and bimetallic particles as well. 

Interestingly, in some cases the IL itself can act as the reductive agent. Spherical metal silver NPs were prepared in a hydroxyl-functionalized IL (2) (entry 30, Table 1.1) [17]. In this case, the hydroxyl moiety of the IL plays a reductive role, being oxidized to the corresponding aldehyde. In a similar manner, for Au(III) precursors, the imidazolium cation itself can act as a reducing agent to yield prismatic particles in BMI.PF6 with a very broad size range of diameter 3-20 pm and thickness... 

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