“…Gold (PI-KEM Ltd., Tamworth, UK, 99.99%) and copper (Color Metal Ltd., Mogos , oaia, Romania, standard C11000 [21]) were used as materials for substrate fabrication. Rhodamine 6G (Voigtländer Kriminaltechnik GmbH, Riedböhringen, Germany, 99.9% powder, abbreviated as R6G) was used as analyte for the Raman characterization of the substrates, either as out-of-the-box powder, or dissolved in distilled water.…”