“…In some of these studies, theoretical predictions of the corresponding spectra, which help in the assignment of the experimental data, were also made. Different SERS substrates have been employed, mostly silver colloids reduced with citrate, [14,15,17 -19,21 -34] hydroxylamine [16,22,23,28] or borohydride. [33] But other substrates have been tested as well: electrodes, [13,26] Ag-Al 2 O 3 35 , Tollens mirrors, [31,35] vacuum-evaporated silver nano-island films (AgIF), [31,36] e-beam-deposited AgIF, [37] silver films over nanospheres (AgFON), [38] and Ag nanoparticles obtained in situ by laser photoreduction.…”