Rapid fabrication of flexible and transparent gold nanorods/poly (methyl methacrylate) membrane substrate for SERS

Nan Yang1, Ting-Ting You1, Yu-Kun Gao1

  • 1Beihang University, School of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing 100191, China.

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