Flat arrays (rafts) of aligned silver nanowires were fabricated by electrodepositing silver in the nanopores of
highly ordered anodic alumina templates and then releasing the silver nanowires and depositing them on an
oxidized, single-crystal silicon surface. SERS spectra were recorded from Rhodamine 6G molecules adsorbed
onto the rafts. The SERS spectra showed striking polarization dependence according to the relative disposition
of the E-vector with respect to the nanowires' axes. The observations can be adequately described by the
classical electromagnetic (EM) response of the strongly interacting metal nanowires to the optical fields when
surface plasmon resonances are induced. The discussion relates these observations to the origin of the giant
surface enhanced Raman effect with single-molecule detectivity as well as to possible strategies that one
might use to construct systems that predictably and repeatedly produce such giant EM fields.
A general methodology that utilizes confined mesoporous silica as template for preparing highly ordered mesostructured nanowires and nanowire arrays is developed. The prepared Ag, Ni, and Cu 2 O nanowires, with unprecedented mesostructures of coaxially multilayered helical, and stacked-donut structures, have the unique features of hierarchical organization, modulated surface morphology, high surface area, and chirality. Surface-enhanced Raman spectra from a silver mesostructured-nanowire bundle are presented.
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