SERS of Ag-covered Au-dendrites (Ag–Au-Ds) outperforms that of Au-Ds at a specific 633 nm laser excitation, and is attributed to improved chemical mechanism (CM) SERS with the Ag–p-NTP bonding and the p-NTP molecular architecture.
When DMAB-functionalized Au-NPs@EPSS acts as the SERS substrate, the detection sensitivity of p-NTP molecules increases by ∼6 times compared with as-synthesized Au-NPs@EPSS.
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