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Recent progress in the fabrication of SERS substrates based on the arrays of polystyrene nanospheres

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Micro/nanostructures have broad applications in diverse application fields, such as surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), photocatalysis, field emission, photonic crystals, microfluidic devices, electrochemical devices, etc. Using polystyrene (PS) spheres formed monolayer colloidal crystal templates as masks, scaffolds, or molds with different materials growth techniques, many different periodic nanostructured arrays can be obtained with the building units varied from nanoparticles, nanopores, nanorings, nanorods, to nanoshells. Significant progresses have been made on the synthesis of micro/nanostructures with efficient SERS response. In this review, we mainly focus on the various PS template-based fabrication techniques in realizing micro/nanostructured arrays and the SERS applications.

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  1. Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Hubei Nuclear Solid Physics Key Laboratory and Center for Ion Beam Application, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    XiaoLei Zhang, ZhiGao Dai, XinGang Zhang, ShiLian Dong, XiangHeng Xiao & ChangZhong Jiang

  2. School of Printing and Packaging, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

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Zhang, X., Dai, Z., Zhang, X. et al. Recent progress in the fabrication of SERS substrates based on the arrays of polystyrene nanospheres. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 59, 126801 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-016-0341-y

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