Size, shape and surface structure of gold snowflake-like particles tailored by the addition of monovalent and divalent inorganic salts

Silver decahedral nanoparticles with uniform and adjustable sizes for surface-enhanced Raman scattering-based thiram residue detection

“…Through the unremitting efforts of researchers, a series of nanostructures with hot spots have been realized, such as nanoplates, 24,25 nanostars, 26,27 nanoflowers, 28,29 nanocubes, 30,31 nanocages, 32,33 and snowflake-like nanoparticles. 17,34 Although these structures possess considerable SERS-enhanced effects, there are always significantly different nano-morphologies in the same batch, which we believe may lead to changes in the intensity of the SERS signal, thus influencing the reproducibility.…”