Molecular engineering of organic semiconductors enables noble metal-comparable SERS enhancement and sensitivity

Organic semiconductors are considered promising Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy platforms. Here the authors demonstrate that metal-free films based on a π-conjugated molecule containing a fully π-conjugated backbone provides an enhancement factor of 105 and detection limit of 10−9 M for methylen...

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Main Authors: Gokhan Demirel, Rebecca L. M. Gieseking, Resul Ozdemir, Simon Kahmann, Maria A. Loi, George C. Schatz, Antonio Facchetti, Hakan Usta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13505-7