Tomas Rakickas

Synthesis of Palladium Nanoclusters and Application in UV Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Abstract Palladium is an attractive but underdeveloped ultraviolet SERS material whose enhancement is strongly coupled to the surface chemistry. We introduce a lipid-confined, dry-state thermal reduction route that converts a drop-cast Na2PdCl4/DOPC precursor on Si into a tunable...