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Biological Templates: High-Density Hotspots Engineered by Naturally Piled-Up Subwavelength Structures in Three-Dimensional Copper Butterfly Wing Scales for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Detection (Adv. Funct. Mater. 8/2012)

  1. Yongwen Tan,
  2. Jiajun Gu*,
  3. Linhua Xu,
  4. Xining Zang,
  5. Dingxin Liu,
  6. Wang Zhang,
  7. Qinglei Liu,
  8. Shenmin Zhu,
  9. Huilan Su,
  10. Chuanliang Feng,
  11. Genlian Fan,
  12. Di Zhang*

Article first published online: 13 APR 2012

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201290048

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Advanced Functional Materials

Advanced Functional Materials

Volume 22, Issue 8, page 1542, April 24, 2012

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Tan, Y., Gu, J., Xu, L., Zang, X., Liu, D., Zhang, W., Liu, Q., Zhu, S., Su, H., Feng, C., Fan, G. and Zhang, D. (2012), Biological Templates: High-Density Hotspots Engineered by Naturally Piled-Up Subwavelength Structures in Three-Dimensional Copper Butterfly Wing Scales for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Detection (Adv. Funct. Mater. 8/2012). Adv. Funct. Mater., 22: 1542. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201290048

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China

*State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China.

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  1. Issue published online: 13 APR 2012
  2. Article first published online: 13 APR 2012

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Keywords:

  • surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy;
  • biological templates;
  • metals;
  • three-dimensional nanostructures
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Wing scales from 175 000 species of butterflies and moths provide huge numbers of textures for the development of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates. On page 1578, Jiajun Gu, Di Zhang, and co-workers unveil how the sub-wavelength structures naturally arranged in depth in copper scale replicas can enhance the SERS properties. The finding helps bring sensitive and affordable SERS substrates to ordinary laboratories as consumables for trace-amount chemical detection.

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