New Gold Nanostructures for Sensor Applications: A Review

作者:Zhang Yuanchao; Chu Wendy; Foroushani Alireza Dibaji; Wang Hongbin; Li Da; Liu Jingquan; Barrow Colin J; Wang Xin*; Yang Wenrong
来源:Materials, 2014, 7(7): 5169-5201.
DOI:10.3390/ma7075169

摘要

Gold based structures such as nanoparticles (NPs) and nanowires (NWs) have widely been used as building blocks for sensing devices in chemistry and biochemistry fields because of their unusual optical, electrical and mechanical properties. This article gives a detailed review of the new properties and fabrication methods for gold nanostructures, especially gold nanowires (GNWs), and recent developments for their use in optical and electrochemical sensing tools, such as surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).