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Sers For The Detection Of Trace Materials, Omari Kirkland Jun 2023

Sers For The Detection Of Trace Materials, Omari Kirkland

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In this dissertation are presented three projects that contribute to the body of research on SERS in the forensic, heritage, and semiconductor fields. The first project, Charge-Transfer mapping on GaN/Ag, a silver-decorated nanopillar semiconductor substrate fabricated from the GaN is used with the Raman probe Rhodamine 6 G (R6G) to map the effect of the nanofeatures on the CT resonance. The second project, in collaboration with Marco Leona from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the use of AgNIFs to identify colorants used on textile fiber samples from four 19th century works of Japanese art. The final project analyzes the …


Sol-Gel Assembly Of Metal Nanostructures Into Metallic Gel Frameworks And Their Applications, Xiaonan Gao Jan 2016

Sol-Gel Assembly Of Metal Nanostructures Into Metallic Gel Frameworks And Their Applications, Xiaonan Gao

Theses and Dissertations

The advent of nanoscience and nanotechnology has sparked many research forefronts in the creation of materials with control over size, shape, composition, and surface properties.1,2 However, for most of the applications, nanoscale materials need to be assembled into functional nanostructures that exhibit useful and controllable physical properties. Therefore, numerous efforts on the assembly of nanoparticles (NPs) using organic ligands, polymers and polyelectrolytes have been reported.3,4 However, the interactions between NPs are mediated by intervening ligands, which are detrimental to charge transport and limit the thermal stability. Hence, developing a new method to produce solid …