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Inside Back Cover: Boron Nitride Nanosheets Improve Sensitivity and Reusability of Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 29/2016)
Author(s) -
Cai Qiran,
Mateti Srikanth,
Yang Wenrong,
Jones Rob,
Watanabe Kenji,
Taniguchi Takashi,
Huang Shaoming,
Chen Ying,
Li Lu Hua
Publication year - 2016
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.201604295
Subject(s) - boron nitride , raman spectroscopy , materials science , boron , nitride , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , surface enhanced raman spectroscopy , cover (algebra) , nanoparticle , layer (electronics) , chemistry , raman scattering , organic chemistry , optics , mechanical engineering , physics , engineering
Atomically thin boron nitride nanosheets have many desirable properties for surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy. In their Communication on page 8405 ff. Y. Chen, L. H. Li, and co‐workers show that when used to cover plasmonic silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs), atomically thin boron nitride nanosheets can enhance the sensitivity by up to two orders of magnitude. The impermeability and thermal stability of boron nitride nanosheets protects the Ag NPs from oxidation so that the substrates can be regenerated by heating in air and reused.