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Inside Cover: Silver Nanocrystals with Concave Surfaces and Their Optical and Surface‐Enhanced Raman Scattering Properties (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52/2011)
Author(s) -
Xia Xiaohu,
Zeng Jie,
McDearmon Brenden,
Zheng Yiqun,
Li Qingge,
Xia Younan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201106647
Subject(s) - raman scattering , nanocrystal , cover (algebra) , materials science , raman spectroscopy , scattering , nanotechnology , aqueous solution , crystallography , optics , chemical engineering , chemistry , physics , mechanical engineering , engineering
A seed‐mediated growth method has been used to synthesize silver nanocrystals enclosed by concave surfaces and thus high‐index facets in aqueous solution. Y. Xia and co‐workers report in their Communication on page 12 542 ff . that controlling the growth habit of silver cubic seeds leads to concave silver nanocrystals that act as surface‐enhanced Raman‐scattering substrates with stronger signal enhancements than conventional silver nanocrystals of a similar size but enclosed by flat faces.