Surface-enhanced Raman length

Because macroporous materials have 3D periodicity on a length scale comparable to the wavelength of visible light, 3DOM materials have potential use as photonic crystals. Other potential applications include catalysts, bioglasses, sensors, and substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy (SERS). ... 

The interactions with the surface and reaction kinetics have been studied in detail using various techniques, such as voltammetry, electrorefiectance measurements and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy [139,140]. For monolayers on gold assembled from long chain thiols of the structure HS-(CH2) -C00H (with n > 9) the interfacial electron transfer rate exponentially decreases with chain length and the tunnelling parameter is in the... 

On Ag sols, molecules lie mainly fiat on the surface, as determined from SERS (surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy) measurements. However, the molecules are twisted and there is evidence for a small inclination against the surface. The twisting decreases and the inclination increases with increasing chain length [10-12]. The observed twisting of the molecules is in line with crystal powder X-ray diffraction data (see, e.g., [13] and references therein) which show a small twisting angle (3 -12 ) between the monomeric units in the solid state of 3T [14] and 4T [15,16]. 2T... 

On Ag sols molecules lie mainly flat on the surface, as determined from SERS (surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy) measurements. However, the molecules are twisted and there is evidence for a small inclination against the surface. The twisting decreases and the inclination increases with increasing chain length [151-153]. 

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